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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, there were admitted
932 in-patients, whilst 5005 new out-patients received treatment.
The demand for better accommodation for out-patients has
been met during the year 1931, by the erection of a small OutPatient
Department at a total cost of £1,597: 3:5.
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.
An increasing number of patients are now being sent from the
Staines and Uxbridge areas who were formally dealt with in their
own locality.
This is the result of the more up-to-date equipment and facilities
for treatment which exist at the West Middlesex Hospital, as
compared with the local institutions.
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,
District Railway, or Ambulance, and although definite particulars
are not available, it is certain that many people apply to these Hospitals
outside the district.
The Council annually subscribe £100 to the Hounslow Hospital
and £50 to the Royal Hospital, Richmond.