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For general administrative purposes and for the main statistical purposes of this report,
the district is divided into six wards, Waxlow Manor, Northcote, Hambrough, Dormers
Wells, Glebe and Norwood Green.
The majority of the houses in the district are occupied by good-class working people,
chiefly engaged in the local factories and workshops. These include food, jam and chemical
works, engineering, medical and toilet preparations, paint, dye, and wood works, laundries,
etc. There are no trades carried on which are at present scheduled as offensive trades.
Southall Borough Council maintains a swimming bath situated in the Recreation Ground,
Southall, which is one of the public parks. The surface area of the bath is 3,600 square feet
(120 feet by 30 feet), cubic capacity 16,500 cubic feet (110,000 gallons). The water is treated
by break point chlorination, and a chlorine content of 4 0 parts per million at the shallow
end is maintained in order to obtain a minimum of 2.0 parts per million at the deep end of
the bath. Three samples of the water are taken daily by the staff for chlorine testing. As
this bath is an open air one, the attendance is affected to a great extent by weather conditions.
During 1950 the total number of persons using the bath was 35,230. The average number of
persons attending per session (wet or fine) was 50. The maximum number at any one
session was 500.
HEALTH SERVICES PROVIDED BY OTHER AUTHORITIES
North-West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board
Through its Uxbridge Group this Authority maintains two hospitals in Southall. The
Southall-Norwood Hospital (30 beds) for treatment of general medical and surgical cases
and casualties, and Mount Pleasant Hospital (50 beds) for the treatment of male patients
suffering from tuberculosis.
County Council of Middlesex—Health Department
The County Council of Middlesex is the Local Health Authority under the National
Health Service Act, 1946, and provides the following services in the Borough.
(a) Care of Mothers and Young Children.
Ante-Natal Clinics
Post-Natal Clinics
Infant Welfare Clinics
Diphtheria Immunisation Clinics
Ultra Violet Light Clinics
At Jubilee Gardens and at Manor House.
(b) Midwifery Service.
Certified Midwives are employed for attendance on women in their homes in the
Borough as midwives or as maternity nurses during childbirth.
(c) Health Visitors.
Health Visitors are employed to undertake home visiting for the purpose of giving
advice on the care of young children, to persons suffering from illness, to expectant and
nursing mothers and on the measures necessary to prevent the spread of infection. (The
Health Visitors also act as School Nurses.)
(d) Home Nursing and Nursing Equipment.
Home Nurses are employed to undertake the nursing of persons in their homes. (This
work was formerly undertaken by " District Nurses.")
Where nursing equipment is required for use in the home, it is available on loan, in
the case of large items, direct from the County Council and in the case of smaller items
through the British Red Cross Society.
(e) Vaccination and Immunisation.
In addition to the immunisation of infants and young children carried out at the clinics
referred to in (a) above, vaccination against smallpox and immunisation against diphtheria
is carried out by those general practitioners who have agreed to co-operate in the County
Council's scheme.
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