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13
HEALTH SERVICES OF THE AREA
HOSPITALS
General Hospital Service.
Details of the hospitals in and serving this district were set out in
the Annual Report for 1948.
Those most used by the local inhabitants are :—
1. Edgware General Hospital. This is included in the institutions
allotted to the North-West Metropolitan Regional Hospital
Board, and is managed by the No. 11, or Hendon Group Hospital Management
Committee. (Secretary: J. Fielding, F.H.A., Edgware General
Hospital. Tel. No.: Edgware 8181.)
2. Harrow Hospital. This is associated with the Charing Cross
Hospital, which, as a teaching hospital, is administered by a Board of
Governors.
The hospital maintains a physical treatment department at the Car
Park Building, Station Road, Harrow.
3. Roxbourne Hospital. The Regional Hospital Board took over
the South Harrow Isolation Hospital, which has been modernised and
as the Roxbourne Hospital provides accommodation for a number of
elderly patients.
Isolation Hospital Accommodation.
Most of the patients suffering from an infectious disease who have
needed to be admitted to hospital have been accepted at the Hendon
Isolation Hospital, which admits a far wider range of patients than used
ordinarily to be accepted at the isolation hospitals. A much smaller
proportion of patients suffering from scarlet fever is being removed to
hospital for treatment as many can satisfactorily be cared for at home.
On the other hand no case is known in the last year of a patient suffering
from an infectious condition and needing to be admitted to hospital not
having been accepted at some hospital. Because of staffing difficulties
accommodation could not always be found at the Hendon Isolation
Hospital; in these cases the patient had to be taken to hospitals further,
and sometimes much further, afield.
Convalescent Homes.
Such of these homes as accept patients needing nursing care and
medical treatment are administered by the Regional Hospital Boards.
Arrangements for the admission of patients are made by the hospital
almoners.
Persons needing only supervision and rest in homes not providing
nursing care or medical treatment are admitted to homes administered
by the local health authority. Application for the admission of patients
is made by the general medical practitioners or by hospital almoners
to the Area Medical Officer.