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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.
The two Isolation Hospitals in the District were described
in the Annual Report for 1934.
(2) Smallpox.
The Middlesex County Council is the Authority for the provision
of smallpox hospital accommodation for the whole of the
administrative county. By agreement with the London County
Council cases of smallpox occurring in the County of Middlesex
are removed to 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 County Council possesses two
sanatoria, that at Harefield, which is reserved for sanatorium
pulmonary cases, possessing 129 male and 129 female beds, 64
for children and eight observation beds. The Clare Hall sanatorium,
for late sanatorium and hospital pulmonary cases, has 120 male
and 66 female beds.
Cases of non-pulmonary disease in children are treated at
one of the 25 beds reserved for the County Council at Heatherwood
Hospital, or at one of the six beds reserved at Victoria Home,
Margate.
The number of beds available for the treatment of tuberculosis
in various of the County institutions is 91. At the North Middlesex
Hospital there are 35 beds, 30 for pulmonary cases (28 adult and
two children) and five for non-pulmonary cases (four for adults
and one for children). At the Central Middlesex Hospital are 13
beds for adult pulmonary cases and two for non-pulmonary disease
in children. At Redhill County Hospital are two beds for adult
pulmonary disease and one for non-pulmonary disease in children;
and at the Redhill Institution are a further five beds for adult
patients, four being for pulmonary and one for non-pulmonary
disease. Hillingdon County Hospital has eight beds for pulmonary
disease in adults and one for non-pulmonary disease in children;
while the Institution has one bed for pulmonary disease in adults.
Of the 33 beds at the West Middlesex Hospital, 26 are for pulmonary
disease amongst adults and seven for non-pulmonary disease, of
which six are reserved for children.