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AMBULANCE FACILITIES.
(a) For Infectious Cases.— This is provided by the Joint
Hospital Board.
(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 outside the district. During the year 320 accident cases were
removed to hospital, and 255 cases of non-infectious disease were removed
to hospitals or nursing homes.
CLINICS AND TREATMENT CENTRES IN THE DISTRICT.
A new Maternity and Child Welfare Centre was opened at
Heston in January, 1928.
The three Maternity and Child Wefare Centres are kept almost
entirely for consultation purposes, treatment being reduced to an
absblute minimum so as not to clash in any way with local Medical
Practitioners.
An Ante-Natal Clinic is held at the Health Department on the
first Wednesday in each calendar month.
The only Day Nursery in the district was closed in 1920.
There are now three School Clinics, an additional one having
been opened at Heston on 1st October, 1928. At each School
Clinic treatment for minor ailments is carried out on five mornings
in the week
A Medical Officer attends at Hounslow School clinic now twice
a week, and at Isleworth once a week.
The Tuberculosis Clinic which is part of the County machinery
is situate in Hounslow in the centre of a populous district.
Arrangements for the treatment of Venereal Disease are made
through the County at various Hospitals in London and at the
Richmond Hospital.