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(b) Harefield and Northwood Hospital Management Committee:—
Harrow Hospital 122 beds
Pinner, Northwood and
District Hospital 36 beds
Mount Vernon Hospital and
Radium Institute 427 beds
Infectious Diseases Hospital.
West Hendon Hospital (Telephone No. Colindale 8182) provides
accommodation for cases of infectious disease which require admission to
hospital.
Chest Hospitals.
Clare Hall, South Mimms, Harefield Hospital and Colindale Hospital
are used for patients suffering from respiratory tuberculosis. In addition,
there are also beds at Edgware General Hospital and Hillingdon Hospital
for those suffering from this complaint.
Mental and Mental Deficiency Hospitals.
Shenley Hospital, near St. Albans, provides facilities for those
suffering from mental illness requiring treatment in hospital. Observation
wards are available in three general hospitals, North Middlesex, Central
Middlesex and West Middlesex Hospital. In the main mentally subnormals
are admitted to Harperbury Hospital, near St. Albans, and to a lesser
extent at Leavesdon Hospital, Abbots Langley.
Maternity Hospitals.
Edgware General Hospital maternity unit of 64 beds and Bushey
Maternity Hospital—36 lying-in and 14 ante-natal beds, are the main
hospitals with facilities for expectant mothers from this district who wish
to be confined in hospital. A few cases from the Kenton and Kingsbury
district are admitted to the Kingsbury Maternity Hospital—56 beds,
which is in the Wembley Area. This accommodation has to serve a large
population and is insufficient to meet the demand. In the "Hospital Plan
for England and Wales" the programme for 1961-1971 includes the
provision of 100 maternity beds at the new hospital to be built at Northwick
Park.
Geriatric Hospitals.
Edgware General Hospital and Roxbourne Hospital, together with
certain small annexes provide about 267 beds to meet the needs of the
area as regards geriatric beds. Demands on these beds are always heavy
and as a result many cases which should be in hospital have to be coped
with at home, sometimes under very trying circumstances.