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HOSPITALS.
Hospitals provided or subsidised by the Local Authority or by
the County Council: —
1. Tuberculosis.— The County Council have an institution;
The Bell Road Hospital, with 16 (9 female and 7 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 eases 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 60 beds, is entirely supported by voluntary
contributions; a Children's Ward of 8 cots and 4 beds with
a solarium has also been provided. The Mogden Hospital
for Infectious diseases is Supported from the rates by the
Councils of Heston and Isleworth and Richmond.
The Council subscribe £100 to the Hounslow Hospital, £50 to
the Royal Hospital, Richmond, and £25 to the West London Hospital.
The local usefulness of the hospitals is seriously hampered by
the number of motor accidents admitted from the Grealt- West Road.
These cases do not contribute their proper quota to the funds of the
hospital, but what is more 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