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proposal by the Minister of Health that the hospital and its medical
school should be rebuilt on the site of Fulham Hospital. The Minister
of Health's proposals are that as from April 1st, 1958, Fulham General
Hospital and Fulham Maternity Hospital together with the West London
Hospital shall be administered by the Charing Cross Hospital Board of
Governors, and that eventually Charing Cross Hospital and medical
school shall be rebuilt on the Fulham Hospital site. There was no
suggestion about how the additional beds for this district's needs are to
be provided. Another result of this decision is that the Harrow Hospital
will no longer be one of the contributory hospitals of the Charing Cross
Hospital group, but will pass to the North West Metropolitan Regional
Hospital Board to be one of the hospitals of the Hendon Group.
The Council at its meeting in November " authorised immediate
representation being made to the Minister of Health with a view to the
early provision of additional hospital beds in the Borough consequent on
the change in hospital policy in regard to the abandonment of the proposal
that the new Charing Cross Hospital should be built at Northwick Park;
and the Minister be invited to meet representatives of the Council at an
early date in order fully to discuss the matter in all its aspects." From
the Minister's reply it would appear that he will look to the North West
Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board to provide the additional beds in
place of those of which the district has been deprived.
Isolation Hospital. Infectious cases are admitted to the Hendon
Isolation Hospital (112 beds) in Goldhawk Avenue, Hendon. With the
lessening demand for hospital beds for the infectious sick, 20 of these
beds are now used for general medical patients, and another 20 for those
with gynaecological conditions.
Maternity Hospitals. Most of the mothers who wish to be
confined in hospital are admitted to the maternity ward of the Edgware
General Hospital (60 beds); or to theBushey Maternity Hospital (36 lying-in
and 14 ante-natal beds) which lies just outside the northern boundary of the
district and which is an annexe to the Edgware General Hospital. Just
over the boundary in another direction in Wembley is the Kingsbury
Maternity Hospital (56 beds) associated with the Charing Cross Group
of Hospitals.
Accommodation for the Aged. There are about 200 beds at the
disposal of those in charge of the Geriatric Unit of the Edgware General
Hospital, disposed in groups ranging from 4 to 52 in ten different places.
Of these, 18 are in the Edgware General Hospital. There are 52 at the
Roxbourne Hospital (the old Harrow Isolation Hospital), 35 at Oxhey
Grove Hospital, 14 at the Stanmore Cottage Hospital and 23 at Orme
Lodge.
NURSING HOMES
These are private establishments which provide accommodation for
varying types of patients. Section 187 of the Public Health Act requires
that these homes shall be registered.
At the beginning of the year there were 15 of these homes in this
district. They had a total of 193 beds, of which 16 were for maternity