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Notification of Births.
Number of live births notified during the year 839
„ „ still births notified 22
Notified by Midwives 546
Notified by parents or doctors 315
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 Miss K. Castell, Mrs. Chadwick and Mrs.
Schultz at the Hounslow Centre, and Mrs. E. Chedgey, one of the
Co-opted Members of the Committee, Mrs. Evans and Mrs. Watson
at Isleworth.
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 IIo=pital (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.