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16
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. At these hospitals and Oxhey Grove
the Regional Hospital Board provides accommodation for the chronic
sick.
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 now being removed
to hospital for treatment. 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 by arrangement
made by the local health authority. Applications for the admission
of patients are made by the general medical practitioners or by hospital
almoners to the Area Medical Officer.
NURSING HOMES
Any person who carries on a Nursing Home in this district needs
to be registered. The responsibility for the registration and supervision