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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 the 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.—The Relieving Officers issued 400
medical orders during 1925. Some of these cases received also outrelief
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 52. Its sphere of usefulness has been extended by the provision
of a children's ward. During the year 1925, there were admitte I
576 in-patients, whilst 2,133 new out patients received treatment.
Medical relief is also given by certain voluntary organisations
in the district, namely:—
The Isleworth District Nursing Association.
The Osterley, North Hounslow and Heston 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 Dockwell for infectious
diseases.
VITAL STATISTICS.
Population.
The Registrar-General's estimate for the population for 1925 is
(Birth rate) 48,620—(Death rate) 48,350, despite the fact that
our building activities for the last two years particularly have been