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(f) Prevention of Illness, Care and After Care.
The County Council's scheme includes provision for the admission of suitable cases
to holiday rest homes. (Such cases should not be in need of medical or nursing care.)
The care and after care of tuberculous persons is dealt with through the Welfare Officer
at the Chest Clinic.
(g) Domestic Helps.
Home Help for householders where this is required owing to the presence of a person
who is ill, lying in, an expectant mother, mental defective, disabled or aged is provided under
the County Council's scheme.
(h) Ambulance Service.
An Ambulance Service is provided for the removal to hospital, where necessary, of
accident and sickness cases. This service is organised in association with the Fire Service.
There is one Ambulance Sub-Station situated in Southall beside the Town Hall.
(i) Mental Health Service.
The Mental Health Service deals with persons suffering from mental deficiency or
mental illness.
(j) School Medical Service.
Medical inspection and dental inspection of school children is arranged by the County
Council through the Southall Divisional Executive.
Medical treatment and dental treatment is provided by the County Council in the
Borough as follows :—
Minor ailments treatment
Orthopaedic treatment
Ophthalmic treatment
Physiotherapy
Ultra Violet Light treatment
North Road School and Featherstone Road School.
County Council of Middlesex—Children's Department
The County Council through the Children's Department is also concerned in caring
for children deprived of a normal home life. Area Children's Officers have been appointed
to deal locally with such cases as they arise.
VITAL STATISTICS
Whole District
Total deaths, 480. (Males, 258 ; Females, 222).
Crude Death Rate, 8 52.
For extracts from vital statistics and causes of death, see Appendix, Tables I and II.
Deaths and Death Rate
The death rate which has been decreasing over the last few years showed a further drop
from 9 43 in 1949 to 8.52 in 1950. The corresponding rate for the whole country was 11.6.
Heart disease and cancer were again the principal causes of death. The numbers dying from
heart diseases increased from 121 to 142, but there was a slight fall in the number of deaths
from cancer since the previous year. There were no deaths from poliomyelitis, but one
infant admitted to a general hospital died on the day of admission, and was diagnosed at
post-mortem as a case of laryngeal diphtheria. The child had commenced, but not completed,
immunisation.
The total number of deaths registered during 1950 of persons belonging to the district
and dying within the district, at all ages and from all causes, was 277 (males 135 and females
142). For statistical purposes it is necessary to add to this figure the deaths of persons
ordinarily resident in the district who died in various London Hospitals, the Hillingdon
Hospital, other Middlesex Hospitals and elsewhere outside the district. These "outside"
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