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Maternity Hospital.
The Perivale Maternity Hospital of 43 beds was under the
control of the Ealing and Brentford & Chiswick Hospitals Committee
until the 5th July, 1948, when it was transferred to the North
West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board.
Both these hospitals are now managed by the South West
Middlesex Hospital Management Committee, 1, Churchfield Road,
West Ealing, but the Medical Officer of Health, Dr. W. G. Booth,
still continues as the Medical Superintendent of both hospitals.
AMBULANCE FACILITIES.
The ambulance for infectious disease was provided by the
Ealing and Brentford & Chiswick Hospitals Committee prior to
the 5th July, 1948, and the Council's Accident Ambulance Service
was maintained by the staff of my department until this date.
Both these services have now been transferred to the Middlesex
County Council.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
The year 1948 was a notable one as it saw the coming into
operation of the National Health Service Act on the 5th July.
So far as the Borough is concerned its effect was to deprive the
Council of participation in a number of health activities in which
their efforts in the past had been attended with considerable
success.
These services have now become the responsibility of the
Middlesex County Council. Ten Health Areas have been formed
in Middlesex, Ealing and Acton forming Area No. 7. Most of
the functions have been delegated to the Areas but the County
Council controls policy.
As far as the Maternity and Child Welfare service is concerned
I have, therefore, to include in this Report only information
relating to the first six months of the year, when the work was under
the control of the Borough Council.
In January a scheme was introduced for the training of pupil
mid wives for Part II of the Central Midwives Board Examination.
This course consists of a further three months' hospital training
followed by three months' district midwifery. Arrangements were
made with the Luton Maternity Hospital by which four students
would be accepted for training and four of the Ealing Council's
midwives were approved as teachers by the Central MidwivesBoard.
The first pupils were received on March 1st.