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Two new Health Centres were opened during the year, one
at Northolt where the purchase of land as a public recreation
ground offered a house (Islips Manor) erected thereon as a suitable
building for conversion into a Health Centre to provide for the
ever increasing needs of the Northolt Ward, and the other at
Ravenor Park, Greenford, where a new building in every way
suitable for the purpose was erected.
Islips Manor was easily adapted for its use as a Health Centre.
On the ground floor, which is devoted to the Maternity and Child
Welfare Department, there is a wide entrance hall with a wide
staircase leading to the first floor. From the entrance hall one
can enter independently the large waiting room, the health visitor's
or weighing room and the doctor's room, yet all these rooms can
be entered from one another. This facilitates the movement of
the mothers and children from the waiting room to the weighing
room and to the doctor's room.
On the ground floor there are sanitary conveniences for the
mothers and for girls and a store room for staff purposes.
On the first floor, which is devoted to the School Medical
Service, there is the dentist's room, the waiting room, the doctor's
room and the clerk's room, with sanitary accommodation for the
staff and for boys and a bathroom for use in cleansing school
children or in treating cases of scabies.
The whole of the heating is by gas fires, an Ideal boiler supplying
hot water for the wash-hand basins in the various rooms and
sanitary compartments.
There are good quarters for the caretaker and an ample pram
shelter is available.
The arrangements in general are those which obtain at the
other Health Centres.
Ravenor Park Health Centre is the fourth Health Centre to
be established in the Borough of Ealing and has been built to serve
the needs of the rapidly growing area of Greenford. The other
three in the Borough were formed by the adaptation of old buildings