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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. Informal, temporary and compulsorily 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 Informal and Compulsory
became the sole categories of admissions after 1st November, 1960.
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 1960, 1,452 Southall residents had inpatient
treatment in Hillingdon compared with 2,077 in 1959. A splendid new Maternity Wing
was completed and brought into use at Hillingdon Hospital in 1960, and 807 of the mothers
and babies discharged from Hillingdon Maternity Department were Southall people.
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
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 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 Young Children
Ante-Natal Clinics Jubilee Gardens Centre, Northcote
Infant Welfare Clinics Avenue and 13, King Street.
Diphtheria Whooping Cough and 1 Jubilee Gardens Centre and
Tetanus Immunisation, Smallpox and 13, King Street.
Poliomyelitis Vaccination Clinics
Ultra Violet Light Clinic Northcote Avenue Clinic.
Priority Dental Service for Expectant Northcole Avenue and
and Nursing Mothers and Children 13, King Street.
under School Age
(b) Midwifery Service
Certified Midwives are employed, for attendance on women in their homes in the
Borough during childbirth.
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