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HEALTH SERVICES PROVIDED BY OTHER AUTHORITIES
North-West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board
Through the Uxbridge Group Management Committee this authority maintains two
hospitals in Southall, the Southall-Norwood Hospital (28 beds) for treatment of general
medical and surgical cases and casualties, and Mount Pleasant Hospital (79 beds) for the
treatment of male patients suffering from tuberculosis.
St. Bernard's Hospital is managed by its own Committee and is for the reception of
cases of mental and nervous disorders; it has 2,507 beds and takes patients from an
extensive area, comprising parts of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Middlesex, including
the Borough of Southall. Voluntary, temporary, and certified patients of all types are
admitted, and all modern forms of treatment are carried out.
During 1955, a new ward was opened at this hospital for the isolation and treatment of
cases of tuberculosis occurring either within the hospital or admitted (already suffering from
the disease) from outside or from other hospitals.
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 prevention of tuberculosis (both pulmonary and
non-pulmonary). Persons may be referred there by their own doctors, from 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.
(a) Care of Mothers and Young Children
Ante-Natal Clinics Jubilee Gardens Centre, Northcote Avenue,
Infant Welfare Clinics and Featherstone Road School Clinics.
Diphtheria Immunisation Vaccination Jubilee Garden Centre and Featherstone
and Whooping Cough Immunisation Road Schod Clinic
Clinics
Ultra Violet Light Clinic Northcote Avenue Clinic.
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.
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