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Medical Relief.
Particulars as to the extent to which hospital and other forms
of gratuitous medical relief are utilised are not available, save in
a few instances, as many people apply to hospitals outside the
district as for example, the Royal Hospital, Richmond, the West
London Hospital, Hammersmith, and other General Hospitals
within the Metropolitan area.
Poor Law Medical Relief is reported to have been afforded to
185 cases, and some of these received also out-relief and institutional
treatment.
The Hounslow Hospital is the only voluntary Hospital within
the District; it is a modern and well equipped institution doing
valuable work, but is scarcely large enough to meet the needs of
this district. Its sphere of usefulness will, it is hoped, be extended
by the provision of maternity beds. During the year 1920, there
were admitted 310 in-patients, whilst 892 received treatment as
out-patients.
Medical relief is also given by certain voluntary organisations
in the district, namely:—
The Gunnersbury House Nursing Home.
The Hounslow Central Aid Society.
The Isleworth District Nursing Association.
The Ellis Day Nursery (closed during the year).
Curative agencies directly or indirectly under the control of
the Council will be referred to under their appropriate headings.
They include:—
Maternity and Child Welfare Clinics (two centres).
School Clinics (inspection and treatment of school children).
Hospital provision at Mogden and Dockwell for infectious
diseases.
VITAL STATISTICS.
Population.
For the year 1920, the estimate of nett civil population is
given under two figures supplied by the Registrar-General.