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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 Eoyal Hospital, Richmond, the West
London Hospital, Hammersmith, and other General Hospitals
within the Metropolitan area.
Poor Law Medical Relief.—The Relieving Officers issued 438
medical orders during 1927. Some af 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 with 54
beds. Its sphere of usefulness has been extended by the provision
of a children's ward and X-Ray Department, During the year 1927,
there were admitted 912 in-patients, whilst 3,104 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).
Ante-Natal Clinic.
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 1927, is
(Birth rate) 55,870—(Death rate) 54,910, despite the fact that our
building activities for the last three years particularly have been