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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 (59 beds) for the
treatment of geriatric cases.
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. Patients are now admitted informally (under
the Mental Health Act, 1959) and in due course the above categories will be replaced by
two only, viz. Informal and Compulsory.
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, and Southall cases for geriatric treatment may be admitted to St. John's Hospital,
Uxbridge. The greatest number attend Hillingdon, which has all the facilities of an Acute
General Hospital, a Geriatric Section and a Maternity Wing, either as outpatients, or as
inpatients; in 1959, 2,077 Southall residents had inpatient treatment in Hillingdon compared
with 1,940 in 1958.
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, aftercare 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 male and female beds under the surveillance of clinic physicians at:—
(1) Harefield Hospital for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis; and at
(2) Hillingdon Hospital for the treatment of other chest disorders.
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 Youns Children
Ante-Natal Clinics
Infant Welfare Clinics
Jubilee Gardens Centre, Northcote
Avenue and 13 King Street.
Diphtheria, Whooping Cough and Tetanus
Immunisation, Smallpox and Poliomyelitis
Vaccination Clinics
Jubilee Gardens Centre and
13, King Street.
Ultra Violet Light Clinic Northcote Avenue Clinic.
Priority Dental Service for Expectant and
Nursing Mothers and Children under
School Age
Northcote Avenue and
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.
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