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new block to accommodate 294 chronic patients, alterations to the
existing hospital which will increase the hospital by 74 beds, and
the erection of a new treatment, casualty, X-ray and out-patients
block. The District Council were concerned with the inadequacy
of the general hospital services in the district and in July a deputation
from the Public Health Department attended before the
Middlesex County Council and the Voluntary Hospitals Joint
Advisory Committee.
The following is a list of the out-patient services held at the
Redhill Hospital:—
Ante-Natal Clinic Tuesday and Thursday, 10.30 a.m.
Post-Natal Clinic Monday, 2 p.m.
Dental Monday and Thursday, 2 p.m.
Orthopaedic Wednesday and Friday, 2 p.m.
X-Ray Monday and Wednesday, 2 p.m.
Medical Tuesday, 2 p.m.
Surgical Follow-up Thursday, 3 p.m.
Head Injury Clinic Tuesday, 2 p.m.
Ear, Nose and Throat Consultative
Clinic Wednesday, 1.30 p.m.
Varicose Veins Clinic Tuesday, 2 p.m.
General out-patients are seen daily from 9.30 a.m. by the
Medical Officer on duty; and ear, nose and throat out-patients
are dressed daily by the Aural Sister.
The other hospitals used by local inhabitants were referred to
in the Annual Report for 1934.
(2) Hospitals for Maternity Cases.
Arrangements are made for the admission of maternity cases
to various of the London Maternity and General Hospitals. The
Council pays the fees of necessitous cases for whom such arrangements
have been made.
Cases of puerperal infection are admitted either to the London
County Council North-Western Fever Hospital or to Queen
Charlotte's Isolation Hospital.
(3) Hospitals for Children.
Apart from the arrangements by which cases of ophthalmia
neonatorum are admitted to St. Margaret's Hospital, Hampstead,
there is no provision for admission of children to hospital.
(4) Orthopaedic Hospitals.
The Council has no agreement with any particular orthopaedic
hospital for the admission of patients though responsibility for the
payment of fees of necessitous cases admitted to the various
orthopaedic hospitals is accepted.