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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 recognised recuperative 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, or a child
not over compulsory school age within the meaning of the Education Act, 1944, 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
Orthopædic treatment North Road School Clinic.
Ophthalmic treatment Featherstone Road School Clinic.
Physiotherapy Jubilee Gardens Clinic.
Ultra Violet Light treatment
North Road and Featherstone Road School Clinics.
Speech therapy Talbot 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, 517. (Males 257; Females, 260.)
Crude Death Rate, 9.33.
For extracts from vital statistics and causes of death, see Appendix, Tables I and II.
Deaths and Death Rate
The death rate was lower this year, being 9.33 as compared with 9.91 in 1951. The
corresponding rate for the whole country was 11.3. Heart disease and cancer were the
principal causes of death, though there was no significant increase over the 1951 figures
in either case. It is noteworthy that the deaths caused by diseases of the circulation, and
particularly those resulting in cerebral vascular lesions, rose by about 50% over the 1951
figure. This, however, may be partly due to better definition of the cause of death, since
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