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SECTION ' B'
GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AREA.
The following information is included and set out in such form
as required by the Ministry of Health Circular No, 1728, relative to
the preparation of Annual Reports for the year 1938
(1) PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICERS OF THE AUTHORITY.
A list of all health officers employed by the Council is
incorporated at the beginning of the Report.
(2) DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGES IN CERTAIN SERVICES PROVIDED IN THE AREA.
(a) Laboratory Facilities.
No change has taken place in the arrangements for the examination
of clinical material submitted by medical men for bacteriological
examination. Details of the work carried out in the Council's
laboratory will be found set out on page 34.
(b) Ambulance Facilities.
The ambulance arrangements for the Borough are both adequate
and up-to-date. Four motor ambulances for public use are maintained,
and all are now equipped with outfits for the administration of
morphine sulphate by medical men in cases of urgency.
The use these ambulances were put to during the year is
reflected in the following figures
Number of puolic calls dealt with during 1939 786
Number of'private calls dealt with during 1939 490
The Joint Hospitals Committee maintain their own motor ambulances
for the removal of infectious patients to hospital, and in addition
the Middlesex County Council have a special motor service for the
removal of the many patients of the Borough using the Councy Hospitals.
(c) Nursing in the Home.
No change has taken place in this service. The Brentford and
Chiswick Nursing Association, in affiliation with the Queen's Institute
of District Nursing, still continues to function, and employs two
nurses for work in the district.
(d) Clinios and Treatment Centres.
A Table showing a complete list of Clinics and Treatment Centresgiving particulars of establishment and control, will be 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 Brentford Hospital. The former
Hospital, which has undergone extensive reconstruction, has not 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.
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The Middlesex County Council Hospital. mainly the West
Middlesex Hospital situated in the adjoining' Borough of Hoston 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.