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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hillingdon 1965
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hillingdon]
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| Jan. 1st-Jun. 30th | Jul. 1st-Dec. 31st | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aircraft | Pass. | Aircraft | Pass. | Aircraft | Pass. | |
| From Excepted Area | 12,761 | 678,147 | 15,103 | 858,908 | 27,864 | 1,537,055 |
| Europe Outside Excepted Area | 6,251 | 342,349 | 7,552 | 457,527 | 13,803 | 799,876 |
| North America | 3,285 | 234,871 | 4,078 | 286,750 | 7,363 | 521,621 |
| Central & S. America | 409 | 37,807 | 390 | 36,174 | 799 | 73,981 |
| Africa | 1,484 | 78,377 | 1,524 | 84,870 | 3,008 | 163,247 |
| Asia | 3,097 | 150,417 | 3,058 | 169,467 | 6,155 | 319,884 |
| Totals: | 27,287 | 1,521,968 | 31,705 | 1,893,696 | 58,992 | 3,415,664 |
ACCOMMODATION
Queen's Building
As forecast previously, this section came under joint tenancy in August, when the "aircrew"
half of the accommodation was taken over by the Ministry of Aviation medical staff, whilst the
sick-bay and surgery remained in the occupation of the Health Control Unit. As there is overlap in
both halves, it is fortunate that the two staffs enjoy an amicable relationship. The Health Control
Unit was compelled to abandon one of the two stores to make room for the installation of an electrocardiogram
for the use of aircrew, and some of the space in one of the wards was allocated for
audiometry in connection with aircrew examination.
Towards the end of the year, work was started on the construction of an overhead footbridge,
one end of which, complete with staircase, was planned to be sited immediately outside the
ambulance entrance to the building. The planning of this project was carried out without any
reference either to the Ministry of Aviation medical staff or to the Senior Medical Officer of the
Health Control Unit. As a result of this footbridge, the ambulances can have no easy or direct
access to the building; they are now forced to back in round a hairpin bend, only nine feet in width.
This apart, any user of the footbridge can now have a direct view not only of patients being offloaded
from the ambulance, but also of the various rooms within the accommodation. Protests from
the medical authorities, including the Ministry of Health, have been of no avail.
Passenger Building No. 1 Europa
The basic accommodation of the Health Control Unit in this building has undergone no change,
nor has there been any improvement in its ventilation, but towards the end of the year, the construction
of piers 1 and 2 was started and with it, the demolition of the existing E and F ramps.
The demolition, early in 1966, of F ramp, up which all health-controlled flights arriving in this
building were routed, has necessitated the re-siting of the health check point nearer the Queen's
Building end of the bridge connecting with the Europa Building.
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