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HOSPITALS.
Hospitals provided or subsidised by ihe Local Authority or bv
the County Council : —
1. Tuberculosis.—The County Council have an institution;
The Bell Road Hospital, with 15 (9 female and 6 male)
beds.
2. Maternity.—There is no definite provision in the
district other than the West Middlesex Hospital (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.
3. The Hospitals in the district are the West Middlesex
Hospital which is the Poor Law Infirmary. The Hounslow
Hospital with 54 beds, is entirely supported by voluntary
contributions. A Children's Ward of 8 cots with a solarium
has also been provided. The Mogden and Dockwell Hospitals
for Infectious diseases and Small Pox are supported from the
rates by the Councils of Heston and Isleworth and Richmond.
The local usefulness of the hospitals is seriously hampered by
the number of motor accidents admitted from the Great West Road.
These cases do not contribute their proper quota to the funds of the
hospital, but what ismore important, they occupy beds which were
subscribed for by the charitable people of the district for the residents
in this area, and some of those who subscribe feel that their
charity does not lie towards strangers whose admission from outside
districts to ours is often the result of either their indiscretions or
infringements of the laws connected with motoring, to the exclusion
of those of their own district who are in need of surgical assistance.
There is practically no difficulty in getting cases into the West
Middlesex Hospital, but there is no out-patient department.