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HEALTH SERVICES PROVIDED BY OTHER AUTHORITIES
North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board
South West Middlesex Hospital Management Committee.
Brentford Hospital, Chiswick Maternity Hospital and Clayponds Hospital
are situated within the Borough and are administered by the South West Middlesex
Hospital Management Committee under the provisions of the National Health
Service Act, 1946,
Brentford Hospital is a cottage type hospital staffed by general practitioners
and visiting consultants and has 33 beds dealing with general
medical and surgical cases,
Chiswick Maternity Hospital which is an integral part of the West Middlesex
Hospital has 66 maternity beds and 55 maternity cots.
Clayponds Hospital has 104 staffed beds and is classified as dealing with
orthopaedic, chronic, general medical and surgical cases, It is just within
the Borough and is integrated with the King Edward Memorial Hospital at Ealing,
The majority of the patients admitted to Clayponds come through the King Edward
Memorial Hospital and the remaining patients are admitted through the West
Middlesex and Central Middlesex Hospitals,
A considerable number of Brentford and Chiswick people receive their
Hospital treatment at the West Middlesex Hospital, Isleworth, and the majority
of cases of infectious disease requiring hospital isolation are admitted to
the South Middlesex Hospital, Isleworth.
Chest Clinic patients residing on the north side of the Borough attend
the Ealing Chest Clinic for their examinations, X-rays and out-patient treatment,
and the patients from the remaining area of the Borough attend the
Hounslow Chest Clinic, which is administered by the Staines Group Hospital
Management Committee,
County Council of Middlesex
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:-
(a) Care of Mothers and Young Children
Brentford:-
Ante-Natal Clinics and
Post-Natal Clinics
Tuesday mornings 9.30 to 12 a.m.
Infant Welfare Clinics Wednesday and Thursday afternoons
2 to 4 p.m.
Diphtheria and Whooping
Cough Immunisation and
Vaccination Clinics
Alternate Friday afternoons
2 to 4. 30 p.m.
Day Nursery Portsdown House The Butts, Brentford.
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