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the services of the Queen's Nurses are offered to householders
and others. This contribution entitles the father, mother and
children of the family up to the age of 16 years, to nursing
benefit. Older children of the family may benefit by paying
at a minimum rate of one halfpenny per week. Non-subscribers
can of course obtain the services of the nurses on payment of a
graded fee.
(d) Clinics and Treatment Centres.
A Table showing a complete list of Clinics and Treatment
Centres, giving particulars of establishment and control, will
found appended at the end of this sub-section.
(e) Hospitals—Public and Voluntary.
Two voluntary Hospitals exist within the Borough
boundaries, viz. the Chiswick Hospital and the Brentf rd
Hospital. The former Hospital, which has undergone extensive
reconstruction, has not yet been re-opened to the public. The
proximity of the Borough to London renders the large
Metropolitan Hospitals available to residents and many take
advantage of this fact as well as of the Hospital in the Royal
Borough of Richmond.
The Middlesex County Council Hospitals—mainly the West
Middlesex Hospital situated in the adjoining Borough of Heston
and Isleworth—deal with large numbers of patients requiring
hospital treatment, including many maternity cases unable to
obtain accommodation in the Maternity Hospital of the Joint
Hospitals Committee.
By the courtesy of Dr. T. Orr, Medical Superintendent of
both the Isolation and Maternity Hospitals, I am once again
privileged to include his report on the working and administration
of these Hospitals.
(3) Maternity and Child Welfare.
The remarks made in former reports regarding these Clinics
might be repeated here in respect of the policy followed and the
scope of work undertaken.
There is, however, one outstanding feature which concerns
more especially the Brentford Clinics. In July Lord Horder
opened the new Health Centre which had been built on the site
of the old Rothschild School. A description of the general
lay-out, given by the Borough Engineer, will be seen at the end
of the Report on the School Medical Service, and to that
account may be added the fact that that end of the Borough