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Poor Law Medical Relief.
The Relieving Officer issued 149 Medical Orders during 1936. Some of
these cases also received outdoor relief or institutional treatment.
Hospitals.
There are three hospitals in the district—the Authority's isolation
hospital for fever cases, the Hanwell Mental Hospital (now called St. Bernard's
Hospital), which is governed by the London County Council, and the SouthallNorwood
General Hospital. The Southall-Norwood General Hospital was
opened in November, 1935; it contains 18 ordinary beds, 5 cots and 2 private
wards.
The Isolation Hospital report is given on pages 74 to 78.
The Council makes grants to the following hospitals in the neighbourhood:—
Southall-Norwood General Hospital.
King Edward Memorial Hospital, Ealing.
Hounslow Cottage Hospital.
Hanwell Cottage Hospital.
No formal arrangements have been made with regard to the admission
to the County hospitals of cases sent by the Council.
Health Education.
Mothercraft sessions were started at the Manor House in March, 1936,
and it is hoped to hold them also at the new Branch Centre when this is
completed.
They are held at the Manor House on Tuesday afternoons from January
until Easter; from Easter until the end of July; and from September until
Christmas.
The sessions start at 2.30 p.m. and are of about an hour to an hour and
a-half's duration. They are of course free, but a penny is charged if biscuits
and tea are had at the end of the session.
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