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2. Maternity Hospital.—Hospital accommodation for maternity
patients is provided at the Chiswick and Ealing Maternity
Hospital where the 22 beds available have for some years been quite
inadequate to meet the needs of the districts served. Proposals
to provide additional accommodation have been noted in the reports
for the last four years and last year it was stated that a tender
would shortly be accepted for the construction of an entirely new
maternity hospital.
Tenders for the erection of a new hospital with accommodation
for 42 beds were considered early in 1935, but progress in the matter
was delayed by questions of principle which arose and which
entailed negotiations with the Middlesex County Council. These
negotiations have had a favourable result and it is anticipated
that the work of building the new Maternity Hospital will be
begun at an early date.
3. Smallpox Hospital—Hospital provision for childrenOther
hospitals.—No change has to be noted in the hospital provision
which was described last year.
HEALTH EDUCATION.
The issue of 2,000 copies each month of the publication
"Better Health" through the Health Department, the Health
Centres and the Public Libraries, has been continued. Arrangements
have been made for the issue of a new edition of the booklet describing
the Public Health Service which provides a summary of all
the public health activities of the Town Council, and the facilities
which are available for preventive and remedial treatment for
certain classes or groups of the community.
During the year the British Medical Association published an
admirable booklet on "Family Meals and Catering," which has
been distributed through the Health Centres. By arrangement
with the Education Committee, copies of this booklet were also
made available to the girls attending the Domestic Instruction
Centres.