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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 over 2,500 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 1963, 3,351 Southall residents
had inpatient treatment in Hillingdon compared with 2,998 in 1962, and 1,562 in
1961. This figure includes 1,624 maternity mothers and babies discharged, compared with
1,362 in 1962, 1,170 in 1961, and 807 in 1960.
During 1963, Mount Pleasant Hospital, a 59-bedded hospital, providing accommodation
for 39 female and 20 male elderly patients, admitted 76 patients living within the
Southall area.
Re-decoration and minor improvements have been made to Lovibond Ward during
the year, and a central linen store has been provided in the former X-ray Department. It is
hoped to upgrade the Main Kitchen and Windle Ward during 1964. Plans have been
prepared for eventual alterations to the centre part of Elizabeth West Ward, to provide
much needed ancillary rooms and a day room.
The W.V.S. continued to cater for the daily needs of the patients by a trolley shop
around the Wards. A weekly library service was provided by the Red Cross Society.
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
Infant Welfare Clinics
Jubilee Gardens Centre, Northcote
Avenue Clinic and 13, King Street.
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