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16
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.
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. 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. Patients for whom
accommodation cannot be found at the Hendon Isolation Hospital are
admitted to hospitals further, and sometimes much further, afield.
Convalescent Homes
Arrangements for the admission to convalescent homes of persons
who need nursing care or medical treatment while they are at the homes,
are made by the hospital Almoners on behalf of the Regional Hospital
Boards.
Persons who need only supervision and rest in homes which do not
provide nursing care or medical treatment are admitted to homes by
arrangements made by the local health authority. The applications are
submitted by the patients' doctors to the Area Medical Officer, being
passed to the County Medical Officer who decides on the homes the patients
are to go to.