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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 117 male and 130 female beds, 4 adult
observation beds, 56 beds for children and 8 observation beds, and the
Clare Hall sanatorium, for late sanatorium and hospital pulmonary
cases, which 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 6 beds reserved at Victoria Home, Margate.
Those for whom institutional accommodation is required and
who can not be accommodated at the County institutions are
admitted to the sanatoria or hospitals belonging to other Local
Authorities or to voluntary organisations 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.
For particulars of the in-patient accommodation of these institutions
see the Annual Report for the year 1935 ; and of other
hospitals used by local residents see the Annual Report for the
year 1934.
The consultative out-patient clinics held at the Harrow and
Wealdstone Hospitals, namely, medical, surgical, diseases of children,
diseases of women, ear, nose and throat, and radiological