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HEALTH SERVICES IN THE AREA INCLUDING CONTROL
OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Hospitals
Hayes Cottage Hospital, Grange Road, Hayes.
Harlington Cottage Hospital. Sipson Lane, Harlington
for maternity cases.
Beds are available at hospitals within a few miles of
the district for treatment of most conditions including
mental disease and infectious disease.
Ambulance Service
This is provided by the Middlesex County Council for
the conveyance of all cases to hospital and one ambulance
is based in Hayes; other ambulances operate from Hillingdon
Hospital.
Tuberculosis :
There has been a further small decrease in the number
of new cases notified during the year, although the number
of deaths has risen slightly. The Chest Clinic is situated
in Uxbridge and is open on certain evenings for the benefit
of workers. Provision for treatment is made at Harefield
Hospital.
Child, Welfare Clinic etc.
The Maternity and Child Welfare services are adminis
tered by the Middlesex County Council. The district is
well supplied with clinics as in addition to three clinic
buildings, sessions are held regularly in the mobile clinic
at three points and in three church halls.
Immunisation and 7accination
Vaccination against poliomyelitis has continued apace
and elsewhere will be found details of the numbers of
children in this district who have received two injections.
Although the recommended ideal is a course of three in
jections. the policy in this country has been to give a
large measure of protection to the greatest possible number
of children, and preliminary results show that this was in
fact achieved. It is probable that the children already
vaccinated will be offered a third injection when supplies
permit. The work has been carried out in the main at the
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