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trict of Hendon it is felt that this new Urban District, with an area of
12,423 acres would form a suitable unit of sufficient size to function
successfully and economically as an authority for Isolation Hospital purposes
and could well administer a hospital centrally situate and convenient
of access to patients from all parts of the greater Harrow area.
Such a hospital should, it is felt, be erected and maintained by the
greater Harrow Urban District Council, which would be fully competent
to carry out its functions wihout the intervention of a new authority—a
joint board.
Willesden, Wembley and Kingsbury (with an area of 10,778 acres)
could most appropriately be catered for by the existing Willesden Hospital
extended to meet future requirements.
This would leave the Hendon Isolation Hospital available primarily
for patients from the Borough, which has an acreage of 10,471.
There would then be in the proposed Area No. 2 three urban
sanitary authorities carrying out the functions entrusted to them by
statute and providing isolation hospital accommodation for areas similar
in size. Reciprocal arrangements would be entered into by these
authorities for the reception of patients from other areas, as and when
necessary.
Such a scheme as that outlined above would in the opinion of the
Hendon Borough Council have the advantage of avoiding, as far as
practicable, any undesirable increase in the number of authorities operating
in the respective districts, would prove most convenient from the
point of view of the patients, and would ensure the greatest degree of
efficiency and economy.
The Council understand that the Willesden Council has asked the
Minister of Health to receive a deputation to discuss the matter. In
the event of the Minister agreeing to the proposal I am directed to ask
that he will, at the same time, consent to receive a deputation from this
Authority."
This was followed up by a deputation from Willesden and Hendon,
the latter consisting of the then Deputy Mayor, Alderman C. C. Cartwright,
M.B.E., J.P., Councillor J. J. Copestake, Chairman of the Public Health
and Medical Services Committee, and Councillor A. S. F. Ford, there the
objections were reiterated and amplified but so far the decision of the Ministry
has not been received.