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10
Maternity Hospital.
The Perivale Maternity Hospital of 43 beds is also under the
control of the Ealing and Brentford & Chiswick Hospitals Committee..
Throughout the year this hospital was taxed to the uttermost by
the demands for admission, the accommodation being fully booked
months in advance throughout the year. The Annual Report on
the hospital is included as an Appendix to this Report.
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 Clayponds Isolation Hospital at South Ealing.
2. For Cases of Accidents and Acute Illness.
The establishment of ambulances for accidents and cases of
illness is four but unfortunately one of the ambulances has been
out of commission for some months owing to inability to replace
a part which has become defective. The Middlesex County Council
promised replacement early in 1947 but so far nothing has been
supplied and we are reduced to two suitably equipped ambulances
and an old civil defence ambulance.
In spite of this the work performed during the year constituted
a record, there being a total of 7,044 calls.
In addition to the three ambulances there is also a utility
vehicle which is used for the conveyance of sitting cases to hospitals
and for the conveyance of school children to health centres or
hospitals.

Number of journeys outside the Borough
(included above) 1,425
Annual Mileage 52,454
In addition, Gas/Air apparatus was delivered to the homes of
465 maternity cases.