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ing for the admission of cases of Puerperal Fever and Oph
thalmia Neonatorum, but consideration was adjourned unti
the additional accommodation has been provided.
AMBULANCE FACILITIES.
(a) For Infectious Cases.—This is provided by the Join???
Hospital Board.
(b). For Non-Infectious and Accident Cases.— There an???
none in the district, but arrangements have been made with the???
Board of Guardians whereby their ambulance is available at call.
A contract is being entered into for the provision of a rnotoi???
ambulance for the district.
CLINICS AND TREATMENT CENTRES IN THE DISTRICT.
The two Maternity and Child Welfare Centres are kept almost
entirely for consultation purposes, treatment being reduced to an
absolute minimum so as not to clash in any way with local Medical
Practitioners.
The only Day Nursery in the district was closed in 1920.
There are two School Clinics at each of which the Medical
Officer attends once a week, and at which treatment for minor ailments
is carried out on five mornings in the week.
The Tuberculosis Clinic which is part of the County machinery
is situate in Hounslow in the centre of a populous district.
There is no clinic for Venereal Diseases.
Professional Nursing in the Home.
The Isleworth Nursing Association carried on this work in
part of the district, and the Osterley, North Hounslow and Heston
Nursing Association deals with the cases in the remaining area.
It was found that nursing assistance in the Northern part of
the district was sadly deficient, and the new Nursing Association
was formed in 1925 to remedy the defect.