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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.
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 nonpulmonary).
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 until the end of 1957 male beds at Mount Pleasant Hospital. At this latter
Hospital, special treatment clinics were 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
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
Infant Welfare Clinics Avenue and 13, King Street.
Diphtheria Immunisation, Vaccination
and Whooping Cough Immunisation Jubilee Gardens Centre and
Clinics 13, King Street.
Ultra Violet Light Clinic Northcote Avenue Clinic.
Priority Dental Service for Expectant Northcote Avenue and
and Nursing Mothers and Children
under School Age 13, King Street.
(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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