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During the year 1934 between 900 and 975 tuberculous persons
were being maintained by the County Council in hospitals or
sanatoria. Those for whom institutional accommodation is required
and who cannot be accommodated at the County Institutions
are admitted to sanatoria or hospitals belonging to other Local
Authorities or to voluntary organizations, where the cost of their
maintenance is met by the County Council.
Hospitals for General Cases.
(1) Hospitals for Medical and Surgical Cases.
The two hospitals most used by the local inhabitants are
the Harrow and Wealdstone Hospital and the Redhill County
Hospital.
The Harrow and Wealdstone Hospital, a voluntary institution,
has a complement of 77 beds, comprised of 20 male and 27 female
beds and 18 children's cots in the public wards, and 12 private
beds. The total number of in-patients admitted during the year
was 1,418. Consultative out-patient clinics are held at the Hospital
for the following branches:—medical; surgical; diseases of
children; diseases of women; ear, nose and throat; and radiological
examinations, patients being seen by appointment.
The total number of out-patients seen at the Hospital last
year was 3,127, of whom 325 were accident cases, and 2,802
consultations, treatment or X-ray examinations.
Massage, electrical and sunlight treatment are provided at
"Tyneholme" on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 5 p.m.
732 patients were treated, 513 by massage and 219 received sunlight
treatment.
Of the County Hospitals the nearest and most used by local
inhabitants is the Redhill County Hospital which contains 61
medical beds (32 male and 29 female), 61 surgical (32 male and
29 female), 18 ear, nose and throat (seven male, five female and
six children), 26 maternity beds, 20 cradles and six isolation beds,
22 beds for children and two beds for sick nurses. At the Redhill
Institution are 34 male beds and 77 female beds for the chronically
sick. Of the 3,972 patients admitted in the year 1934, 1,867 came
from the borough of Hendon, 1,241 from the urban district of
Harrow, 807 from the urban district of Wembley and 57 from
other districts of Middlesex.
The Hospital is too small to meet the demands made on its
accommodation, so that in 1934 741 patients from Harrow and
Hendon had to be admitted to the Central Middlesex County
Hospital, and others to even more distant of the County Hospitals.
The proposals of the County Council for extending the Hospital
include provision for a total of 313 beds for acute, including
maternity, cases, and 294 chronic beds, the main work in the scheme
including a new maternity block to accommodate 61 patients, a