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GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES
FOR THE AREA.
Public Hospitals Situated In or Serving the District.
(1) Isolation Hospital.—Cases of infectious disease are isolated
at the Joint Hospital which is managed by the Chiswick and Ealing
Hospitals Committee. At this hospital, which is conveniently
situated just within the southern boundary of the Borough, cases
from the Urban District of Brentford and Chiswick are also dealt
with.
(2) Smallpox Hospital.—During the year as a result of negotiations
with the Middlesex County Council and following an
application to the Ministry of Health, Regulations were issued
under Section 61 of the Public Health Act, 1925, authorising the
County Council to make arrangements for suitable provision for
treatment of cases of smallpox. The Middlesex County Council,
consequent on this, made arrangements with the Metropolitan
Asylums Board for the reception of cases of smallpox from the
County of Middlesex into their Smallpox Hospitals. The use of
the Smallpox Hospital maintained by the Borough of Ealing was
therefore discontinued and the ground was handed over to the
Sports and Recreation Grounds Committee to be let for sports.
(3) Tuberculosis Hospitals.—There are no hospitals for tuberculosis
within the Borough. The Middlesex County Council make
provision for the treatment of cases of tuberculosis at Harefield
Sanatorium and at Clare Hall Hospital.
(4) Maternity Hospital.—The Chiswick and Ealing Hospitals
Committee manage the Maternity Hospital. It serves the needs
of the Borough and of the Urban District of Brentford and Chiswick,
and consists of 22 beds.
Improvements have just been completed at a cost of over
£8,000 by which this Hospital has been provided with a new Labour
Ward, with new bathrooms in connection with the main wards,
with sufficient accommodation, bedrooms and public rooms, for
the staff and with a new hot water and heating apparatus. In
these extensions and improvements sufficient provision has been