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twenty-five female beds and thirteen children's cots in the public
wards, and thirteen private beds. The out-patients' department
is maintained chiefly for casualties and consultations, though the
hospital provides massage, electrical and sunlight treatment for
out-patients at "Tyneholme." The total number of in-patients
admitted during the year 1934 was 1,321, and the total number
of out-patients was 3,396, of whom 2,752 were seen at the hospital
(350 accidents, 1,166 consultations and treatment, and 1,236 X-ray
examinations), and 644 at "Tyneholme" (436 for massage and 208
for sun-ray treatment).
The other hospital most used by local inhabitants is the Redhill
County Hospital. This building, originally planned to contain
175 beds and cots and eighteen maternity cradles was by certain
additions between 1928 and 1933 extended to its present complement
of 215 beds. This figure is made up of seventy-one male
beds (32 medical, 32 surgical and 7 ear, nose and throat), sixtythree
female beds (29 medical, 29 surgical and 5 ear, nose and
throat), twenty-six maternity beds, twenty cradles and six isolation
beds, twenty-six general beds for children and six for ear, nose
and throat, and two beds for sick nurses. At the Redhill Institution
there are thirty-four male beds and seventy-seven female beds for
the chronically sick. The hospital draws its patients mostly from
Harrow, Hendon and Wembley, the distribution in 1933 being
that of 3,782 patients admitted, 1,083 came from Harrow, 1,904
from Hendon and 733 from Wembley, the remaining sixty-two
coming from other Middlesex districts.
Of the other county hospitals, the only one used to any extent
by local patients is the Central Middlesex County Hospital, an
institution of 831 beds, of which 187 are for acute male cases, 192
for acute female cases and 114 for children. Of the 5,042 patients
admitted in 1933 to this Institution, 638 came from Harrow and
Hendon.
Three other smaller hospitals near the boundaries of the district
are used to a certain extent. The Northwood, Pinner and District
Hospital has eight male, twelve female and six children's beds in
the public wards, and eleven private beds, totalling thirty-seven.
An out-patients' department is maintained and there are also
the following special departments: X-ray (diagnostic), light treatment
and massage. The Wembley hospital contains fifty-five
beds. The out-patients department is limited to casualties only.
The special departments include X-ray (diagnostic), electrical
and light treatment. At Windmill Lane, Bushey Heath, is the
Bushey Heath Cottage Hospital with twenty-four beds.
(2) Hospitals for Maternity Cases.
Arrangements are made for the admission of maternity cases
to various of the London Maternity and General Hospitals. The