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Medical Relief.
Particulars as to the extent to which hospitals and other forms
of gratuitous medical relief are utilised are not available, save in
a few instances, as many people apply to hospitals outside tha
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
510 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 which
was enlarged by the addition of 20 beds in 1922, making a total
of 47. Its sphere of usefulness will, it is hoped, be extended by
the provision of maternity beds. During the year 1923, there
were admitted 512 in-patients, whilst 2,638 new out-patients
received treatment.
Medical relief is also given by certain voluntary organisations
in the district, namely:—
The Hounslow Central Aid Society.
The Isloworth District Nursing Association.
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 Dockvvell for infectious
diseases.
VITAL STATISTICS.
Population.
For the year 1923, the estimate of nett civil population is
given under two figures supplied by the Registrar-General.
The death-rate population (46,505) excludes all non-civilian
males whether serving at home or abroad; whilst the birth-rate
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