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HEALTH SERVICES OF THE AREA
HOSPITALS
General Hospital Services.
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.) In addition to the obstetric beds at the
hospital, there is accommodation for maternity cases at the associated
Bushey Maternity Hospital.
2. Harrow Hospital. This is associated with the Charing Cross
Hospital, which, as a teaching hospital, is administered by a Board of
Governors. (Secretary: S. Garbutt, F.H.A., Harrow Hospital. Tel. No.:
Byron 2232.)
The hospital maintains a physical treatment department at the Car
Park Building, 227, Station Road, Harrow. (Tel. No.: Harrow 0926.)
3. Annexes. The former South Harrow Isolation Hospital which
became the Roxbourne Hospital, provides accommodation for the elderly
chronic sick of either sex. admissions being made from the Edgware
General Hospital. Similar use is made of the accommodation at the
former Stanmore Cottage Hospital.
The 40 beds at Oxhey Grove have been allocated to short-stay
chronic sick patients who are admitted for periods of 21 days to enable
the relatives responsible for their care to take a holiday or, for one
month, to give some small relief from nursing.
In September, the National Association for the Care of the Aged
acquired Warren House, Stanmore (now " Springbok House ") to be used
jointly by the West Middlesex and the Hendon Group of hospitals. The
accommodation is for elderly chronic sick patients well enough to leave
hospital but not well enough to return to their own homes.
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 patients had to be taken to hospitals
further, and sometimes much further, afield.