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(b) For Non-Infectious and Accident Cases.—A Wilson and
Stockall Ambulance has been provided for accident cases and removal
of non-infectious cases to hospitals or nursing homes within
or without the district. The Ambulance commenced duty on 23rd
June, 1927, and during the remainder of year 109 accident cases
were removed to hospital, and 86 cases of non-infectious disease
were removed to hospitals or nursing homes.
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.
An Ante-Natal Clinic is held at the Council House, every third
Monday in each calendar month.
The only Day Nursery in the district was closed in 1920.
There are two School Clinics at each of which treatment for
minor ailments is carried out on five mornings in the week.
A Medical Officer attends at each clinic now once a week. Previously
there were two clinics a week, and an endeavour to economise
these were reduced to one, but the attendances are such that applications
have been made to reinstate the second morning at each Centre,
as the amount of work seriously inconveniences the Staff, and still
more so the mothers who are attending, as they are not able to get
away in order to provide the mid-day dinner in time.
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 Associaton deals with the cases in the remaining area.