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No special measures exist for dealing with unmarried mothers
or illegitimate children of such, but cases not wholly destitute
have derived benefit through the Council's scheme for grants of
food and milk.
VOLUNTARY SOCIETIES AND HELPERS.
The Isleworth Nursing Association is the only Voluntary
Society in direct contact with the Council's Maternity and Child
Welfare Scheme.
Special mention must be made of the services rendered at the
Welfare Clinics, by the members of the Women's Co-operative
Guild, Mrs. Bishop and Mrs. Dollaston, Hounslow, and Mrs. Evans,
Isleworth. The Council in January, 1923, placed on record their
appreciation of the valuable services rendered by the foregoing
helpers.
HOSPITALS.
Hospitals provided or subsidised by the Local Authority or
by the County Council:—
1. Tuberculosis.—The County Council have two institutions
: The Bell Road Hospital, with 16 beds, and a section
of the West Middlesex Hospital.
2. Maternity.—There is no definite provision in the
district other than the West Middlesex Hospital (Guardians)
for maternity cases apart from private nursing homes charging
considerable fees. There are a few beds in the Hounslow
Hospital and cases can also be dealt with at the West
Middlesex Hospital, but the great majority of the cases which
come under the notice of the Public Health Department are
dealt with by the large London Hospitals.
3. The Hospitals in the district are the West Middlesex
Hospital which is the Poor Law Infirmary. The Hounslow
Hospital with 40 beds, which is entirely supported by voluntary
contributions and the Mogden and Dockwell Hospitals for
Infectious Diseases and Smallpox supported from the rates by
the Councils of Heston and Isleworth and Richmond.