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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 King Edward Memorial
Hospital, Clayponds Wing (formerly 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. This hospital is now a Training School for assistant nurses
in conjunction with South Middlesex Hospital.
Chiswick Maternity Hospital which is an integral part of the West Middlesex
Hospital has 66 maternity beds and 55 maternity cots, but the actual bed complement
is at present reduced to 53 in order that 13 single bedrooms may be
available for the staff. It is hoped that this is a temporary expedient only.
King Edward Memorial Hospital, Clayponds Wing, has 140 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 residingon 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 Mother m and Young Children:
Brentford:-
Ante-Natal Clinics and)
Post-Natal Clinics) Tuesday afternoons 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Infant Welfare Clinics Wednesday and Thursday afternoons
2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Diphtheria, Whooping)
Cough, and Poliomyelitis)
Immunisation and) Friday afternoons 2pm, to 4.30 p.m.
Vaccination Clinics)
Day Nursery Portsdown House, The Butts, Brentford
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