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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.
(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.
(3) 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, particulars of which were given in the 1937 Report.
HOSPITAL 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.
(2) Hospitals for Maternity Cases.
Up to this year the Council has arranged for the admission
of such maternity cases as were recommended at the ante-natal
clinics for hospital treatment and could not be accommodated in
the County Council hospitals to various of the London Maternity
and General Hospitals. Since the time, however, that the decision
of the Minister that the County Council were to be considered the
authority in this area for the provision of maternity hospital
accommodation was made known, the Council has limited its
responsibility for maternity accommodation to accepting liability
for the hospital charges only of those patients admitted to the
City of London Maternity Hospital under the care of Dr. Christie
Brown, most of such patients being referred from the consultant
ante-natal clinics.
Cases of puerperal infection are admitted either to the London
County Council North Western Fever Hospital or to the Isolation
Block of Queen Charlotte's Hospital.