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HOSPITALS.
(1) General.—Hounslow Hospital, Staines Road.—This is
the only Voluntary Hospital within the district. It is a modern
and well-equipped institution, with 72 beds, including a children's
ward and X-ray Department. During the year 1930, there were
admitted 10'83 in-patients, whilst 4,775 new out-patients received
treatment.
West Middlesex Hospital, Isleworth—The large public
institutions formerly administered by the Brentford Board of Guardians,
and now transferred by virtue of the Local Government Act,
1929, to the Middlesex County Council, are situated at the eastern
end, and receive patients and inmates from the constituent parishes
of: Acton, Chiswick, Ealing, Greenford, Hanwell, Heston and
Isleworth, New Brentford, Old Brentford, Perivale, Twickenham
and West Twyford.
The County Council, however, I am informed, find that the
up-to-date equipment at the West Middlesex Hospital is very convenient
for dealing with cases which had formerly to be sent to
London and other hospitals by the Staines and Uxbridge Unions.
Patients are, therefore, received in increasing numbers from the
outlying districts of Spelthorne, Staines, Uxbridge, Hayes and
Southall, for medical and surgical treatment.
There is practically no difficulty in getting cases into the
West Middlesex Hospital.
The Royal Hospital (Richmond), West London Hospital
(Hammersmith) and other large General Hospitals within the Metropolitan
area are within comparatively easy reach by tram, bus,