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Miles travelled in the year 1937 15,770
Cash received £7
Total expenditure £708
Cost per mile (exclusive of depreciation) 10.6 pence
Poor Law Medical Relief.
The Relieving Officer issued 259 Medical Orders during 1937. 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, St. Bernard's Hospital, which is governed by the London County
Council, and the Southall-Norwood 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 61 to 65.
The Council makes grants to the following hospitals in the neighbourhood
:—
Southall-Norwood General Hospital.
King Edward Memorial Hospital, Ealing.
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.
The objects of mothercraft are to enable expectant mothers and mothers
of infants to learn in a detailed manner the best ways of preparing for and
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