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GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH
SERVICES FOR THE AREA.
Hospitals provided or subsidised by the Local Authority or
by the County Council.
a. (1) Fever.
There are two Isolation Hospitals in the district, that at Rayners
Lane previously maintained by the Harrow-on-the-Hill Council,
and that at Honeypot Lane, previously maintained by the Hendon
Rural District Council.
(2) Smallpox.
The Middlesex County Council is the Authority for the provision
of hospital accommodation for smallpox for the whole of the
administrative county. By agreement with the London County
Council, cases of smallpox in Middlesex are removed to the
observation station at South Wharf, Rotherhithe, thence for
treatment to one of the River Hospitals.
b. Tuberculosis.
The Middlesex County Council is the Authority by whom
arrangements are made for the treatment of those in the county
suffering from tuberculosis. The number of tuberculous patients
in hospitals and sanatoria under the County Council's Tuberculosis
scheme ranged in 1933 from 900 to 1,000. This is apart from the
number of patients undergoing treatment in public assistance
and general hospitals. The County Council possesses in its own
sanatoria some 500 beds for the treatment of tuberculosis. At
the County Sanatorium, Harefield, an institution for pulmonary
cases, there are 129 beds for males, 129 beds for females, and 56 for
children, and in addition, 12 beds for observation cases. The
County Sanatorium, Clare Hall, South Mimms, for late sanatorium
and hospital pulmonary cases, has 120 male and 66 female beds.
Non-pulmonary disease in children is treated at one of the 25
beds at Heatherwood Hospital, Ascot, or at one of the 6 beds reserved
at Victoria Home, Margate.
Tuberculous patients for whom institutional accommodation
is required and who cannot be accommodated at these institutions
are admitted to various voluntary hospitals and sanatoria, where
the cost of their maintenance is met by the County Council.
Hospitals for General Cases.
(1) Hospitals for Medical and Surgical Cases.
There are two hospitals in the district, the Cottage Hospital,
Stanmore, an institution of eight beds for the treatment of local
cases of disease, and the Harrow and Wealdstone Hospital with a
complement of seventy-one beds, comprised of twenty male beds,