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Other hospitals outside the Borough which are used to a considerable extent by
patients from Southall are Hillingdon Hospital, West Middlesex Hospital, and King
Edward Hospital, Ealing.
The Uxbridge Chest Clinic is the regional centre to which residents of the Borough
of Southall may be referred regarding chest disorders. It is also the regional centre for the
diagnosis, treatment, after-care and the prevention of tuberculosis (both pulmonary and nonpulmonary).
Persons may be referred there by their own doctors, from Borough Clinics,
etc. Special "X-ray only" Clinics are available without appointment, otherwise persons
are seen by appointment. There are female beds under the surveillance of clinic physicians
at Hillingdon Hospital and male beds at Mount Pleasant Hospital. At this latter Hospital
special treatment clinics are available for the convenience of Southall patients.
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.
(а) Care of Mothers and Young Children
Ante-Natal Clinics
Infant Welfare Clinics
Diphtheria Immunisation, Vaccination At Jubilee Gardens Centre, North Road and
and Whooping Cough Immunisation Featherstone Road School Clinics.
Clinics
Ultra Violet Light Clinics
No. 2. Recreation Ground.
No. 3. Jubilee Gardens. (Closed 15th April,
Day Nurseries 1952.)
No. 4. Spikes Bridge, Municipal Sports
Ground.
Priority Dental Service for expectant and nursing mothers and children under school
age.
(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 own homes.
(This work was formerly undertaken by "District Nurses.")
Where nursing equipment is required for use in the home, it is available on loan through
the British Red Cross Society.
(e) Vaccination and Immunisation
In addition to the vaccination and immunisation of infants and young children carried
out at the clinics already referred to, vaccination against smallpox and immunisation against
diphtheria is carried out by those general practitioners who have agreed to co-operate in
the County Council scheme.
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