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is reduced to 8d. The remainder of the necessary income is
provided partly by voluntary contributions and partly by a
grant from the Ministry of Health.
It is open daily (except Saturdays and Sundays) from
7.30 a.m. to 7 p.m. There is accommodation for 24
children.
HOSPITALS PROVIDED OR SUBSIDISED BY
THE LOCAL AUTHORITY OR BY THE
COUNTY COUNCIL.
(1) Tuberculosis.
Treatment of Tuberculosis is in the hands of the Middlesex
County Council who possess a County Sanatorium at
Harefield.
Patients are also sent to Clare Hall Sanatorium, South
Mimms, and to various other hospitals and Sanatoria under
County Council arrangements.
(2) Maternity.
There is no maternity hospital in the district. (Patients
are frequently admitted to Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital
in Marylebone, and to Cedar Lawn Lying-in Home, in
Hampstead).
(3) Children.
There is no children's hospital in the district. (Children
over 5 years of age are admitted to the Hendon Cottage
Hospital which is a purely voluntary hospital, and
children of all ages to the London Children's Hospitals).
(4) Fever.
The Hendon Urban District Council provides an Isolation
Hospital.
A scheme for the provision of a new Isolation Hospital
is at present under consideration.
The following shows the number of patients treated in
the hospital each year since it was first opened:-