Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wembley]
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The Minister announced that the plan to build a new
teaching hospital on the site at Northwick Park could no longer be
regarded as appropriate, and that the Governors of Charing Cross
were to be asked if they would agree to the transfer of the Charing
Cross Hospital to a site in Fulham. Incidentally, the Wembley
Hospital and the Kingsbury Hospital, situated within the boundaries
of the Borough, would almost certainly in the future be allocated, for
management purposes, to local Group Management Committees and
removed from the sphere of the Charing Cross Hospital.
This change of plan must be regarded as a prejudice to the
hospital services of the Borough. The provision of a new hospital at
Northwick Park is, however, still under discussion between the
Ministry and the Regional Hospital Board.
2. AMBULANCE SERVICE. A service of ambulances and
sitting case cars is maintained by the Middlesex County Council as
Local Health Authority at:—
No. 4 Depot. (WORdsworth 7724.)
The accident service is obtained by dialling 999.
The authority of a medical practitioner is required for service
to be given, except in emergency and accident cases.
3. HEALTH SERVICES. Health Services under Part 111
of the National Health Service Act, 1946, are provided by the
County Council and relevant details in so far as they apply to the
borough are included below:—
County Medical Officer:
A. C. T. Perkins, M.C., M.D., D.P.H.,
3, 5 & 7, Old Queen Street, S.W.1.
Telephone : TRAfalgar 7799.
Area Medical Officer—Area No. 6—Wembley :
E. Grundy, M.D., M.R.C.S., D.P.H.,
Area Health Office, 215, Chevening Road, N.W.6.
Telephone : LADbroke 2411.
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