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The Eye Clinic is held once a fortnight by Mr, Blair. who
prescribes glasses for those children requiring them. The glasses
are obtained from a Richmond optician at a contract price; 139
children were treated during the year.
The School Dental Clinic is held 10 times a fortnight, and
1,297 children were treated during the year.
Hospitals.
1. Isolation Hospital. Richmond sends its Infectious cases
to the Mogden Isolation Hospital, which is managed by a Joint
Hospital Committee, comprised of members of the Richmond and
Heston and Isleworth Councils. The Hospital is in the Borough
of Isleworth (Middlesex). There is accommodation for 45 patients
mainly Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria cases, but provision can
usually be made for cases of Enteric Fever. Toward the end of
the year arrangements were made whereby the four Isolation
Hospitals. viz., Twickenham, Hampton, Mogden and Staines, were
to be available for cases anywhere in the proposed combined
district.
Consequently some of the cases of Infectious Disease in this
Borough were sent to the Twickenham and Staines Isolation
Hospitals.
During the year under review many conferences have taken
place between representatives of Boroughs and Districts in South
West Middlesex with a view to the establishment of a Joint
Hospital Board for the whole area. As Richmond had been for
so many years a partner with Heston and Isleworth in the Mogden
Hospital it was decided to become if possible, one of the constituent
authorities of the Joint Board.
Application has been made for the formation of the Board and
it is hoped that by 1935 it will be functioning. The areas in the
proposed Board are the Boroughs of Twickenham, Heston and
Isleworth and Richmond, and the Districts of Hampton, Hampton
Wick, Sunbury and Teddington.