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AMBULANCE FACILITIES.
1. For Infectious Disease.
The Ealing and Brentford & Chiswick Hospitals Committee
provide a motor ambulance for the removal of cases of infectious
disease to the Clayponds Isolation Hospital at South Ealing.
2. For Accidents and Cases of Acute Illness.
Three suitably equipped ambulances and a former Civil
Defence ambulance are available for the removal of accidents,
cases of acute illness and maternity cases.
Two of the ambulances are satisfactory but the other is in a
bad condition and the Middlesex County Council have promised
early replacements for this and for the former Civil Defence
ambulance, which is used only in emergencies.
There is also a utility car which is used for general duties and
for the conveyance of children to Health Centres or Hospitals.

Number of journeys outside the Borough
(included above) 914
Annual Mileage 40,669
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
With the number of births, 3,505, the highest ever recorded
in the Borough, and the birth rate 19.7 per 1,000 population,
the highest since 1920, the demands on the maternity and child
welfare service have increased enormously. It is extremely gratifying,
therefore, to be able to state that the infant death-rate of 27
per thousand live births is by far the lowest ever to be recorded
for the Borough. The infant death-rate for the country, as a whole,
was 43 per thousand live births. Previously, the lowest infant
death-rate, recorded in 1934, was 38 per thousand births, while
the rates in the labt three years have remained steady at 40, 41
and 40, respectively.
In 1945, no maternal deaths were recorded at all. In 1946
this excellent record was not maintained, there being three deaths
from maternal causes: even so, the maternal mortality-rate of 0.84
pei thousand total births compares favourably with the rate of
1.06 for the country generally.