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HEALTH SERVICES PROVIDED BY OTHER AUTHORITIES
Norh-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 Memorial
Hospital, Ealing. Southall cases of infectious disease mainly enter St. John's Hospital,
Uxbridge, which also has facilities for the treatment of geriatric cases. 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 1961 1,562 Southall
residents had inpatient treatment in Hillingdon compared with 1,452 in 1960. 1,170
maternity mothers and babies were discharged from Hillingdon Hospital—compared with
807 in 1960. In 1961 16.42% of all the patients treated to a conclusion in Hillingdon
Hospital came from Southall.
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, and
(3) Adelaide Ward of St. Bernard's Hospital—24 male and 24 female beds—for
tuberculous patients—pulmonary and non-pulmonary.
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, which are
operated through the Area Health Office, 92 Bath Road, Hounslow.
(a) Care of Mothers and Young Children
Ante-Natal Clinics Jubilee Gardens Centre, Northcote
Infant Welfare Clinics Avenue Clinic and 13 King Street.
Diphtheria, Whooping Cough and
Tetanus Immunisation, Smallpox and Poliomyelitis Vaccination Clinics
Jubilee Gardens Centre and 13 KingStreet
Ultra Violet Light Clinic Northcote Avenue Clinic
Priority Dental Service for Expectant and Nursing Mothers and Children Under School Age
Northcote Avenue Clime and
13 King Street.
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