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For the removal of infectious cases two ambulances are maintained
at the Isolation Hospital.
These ambulance services adequately meet the needs of the
district.
CLINICS AND TREATMENT CENTRES. •
The Council provide four permanent health centres and
sanction has been obtained from the appropriate Government
Departments for the erection of a fifth to serve the needs of the
northern portion of the Borough, this centre to be erected near
the Broadway, Mill Hill.
The centre will be built of the same semi-permanent material
as that used in the erection of the centre at Central Hendon which
is proving satisfactory.
It will be seen from Table X. that the number of attendances
has increased by approximately 2,000. This is mainly caused by
increased attendances at the Mill Hill and Edgware Centres which
are dealing purely with maternity and child welfare in the northern
part of the area. The attendances at the Mill Hill Centre which
is held in a church hall became so unwieldy that an additional
session was commenced in May and two sessions are now held
there each week. It is probable in the near future a similar
arrangement will have to be made at Edgware.
A centre for a trial period was also established in a church
hall at Colindale to suit the needs of that area, previously the
mothers attended at the nearest permanent centre, mainly West
Hendon.
The health visiting and maternity and child welfare centre
facilities on the Woodside Park Estate still continue to present
a difficult problem because of the inaccessibility at the present
time of that portion of the Borough. The mothers from there
now attend for maternity and child welfare purposes at one of the
Finchley centres but it is probable that in the future a small subcentre
will have to be built adjacent to that area to serve its needs
and also those of the south eastern portion of the Mill Hill ward.
This has, however, been anticipated as shown in the following
extract from His Worship the Mayor's annual report for
1934/35:-