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AMBULANCE SERVICE
The Ambulance Service is administered by the Middlesex County Council Fire and Ambulance
Service. In an emergency the Ambulance Service can be called by telephoning '999' or 100
(Tel: Operator) asking for Ambulance Service. Other enquiries should be made to Ambulance
Service Headquarters, The Mall, Kenton. Telephone: Dryden 0221
LABORATORY FACILITIES
Bacteriological examinations are carried out by the Public Health Laboratory Service,
Public Health Laboratory, Peace Memorial Hospital, Watford. (Telephone: Watford 21369,
24625 and 32755).
Medical Practitioners can leave swabs and specimens at the Northwood Pinner and District
Hospital, Pinner Road, Northwood by 11.00 a.m. each day. These specimens will be collected
daily by the Messenger. The Laboratory request that all specimens be left for collection and NOT
forwarded by post.
NATIONAL ASSISTANCE ACT, 1948, SECTION 47
There was no official action taken by the Council under the above Section of the National
Assistance Act, 1948, in respect of the removal to institutions of persons in need of care and
attention. A few persons, however, were accommodated by voluntary arrangement and with the
co-operation of the County Welfare Officer.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE
The Middlesex County Council as the Local Authority is responsible for all services concerned
with the care of Mothers and Children and the other services set out in Part III of the
National Health Service Act, 1946. For this purpose the County has been divided into ten
administrative areas.
The Urban District of Ruislip-Northwood, together with the Borough of Uxbridge, and the
Urban Districts of Hayes and Harlington and Yiewsley and West Drayton, form Local Area No.
8. Dr. O.C. Dobson, M.D., D.P.H., D.P.A.. Barrister-at-Law, is the Area Medical Officer and all
services mentioned below are now administered from the Area Health Office at the County
Offices, Uxbridge.
Particulars regarding any of these services can be obtained on enquiry at that office or at any
one of the Clinics listed below.
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