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HEALTH SERVICES PROVIDED BY OTHER AUTHORITIES
NORTH WEST METROPOLITAN REGIONAL HOSPITAL BOARD - Two general hospitals (West
Middlesex, 1,150 beds and Hounslow, 81 beds) and one fever hospital (South Middlesex
140 beds) are situate in the Borough Part of the accommodation in the fever hospit
al is used for other cases. The West Middlesex and South Middlesex Hospitals are
controlled by the South West Middlesex Hospital Management Committee, while Hounslow
Hospital and the Chest Clinic are the responsibility of the Staines Group Hospital
Management Committee, The Regional Hospital Board provides the specialist services
for the hospitals and for domiciliary consultations,
MIDDLESEX COUNTY COUNCIL HEALTH DEPARTMENT - The County Council is the Local
Health Authority under the National Health Service Act, 1946. The following
services are provided in the Borough:=
(a) Ante»natal and post-natal clinics
92 Bath Road, Hounslow Monday and Wednesday mornings
Thursday afternoon
Busch Corner, Isleworth Tuesday afternoon
New Heston Road Thursday afternoon.
(b) Infant welfare clinics
92 Bath Road Hounslow Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday afternoons.
Busch Corner, Isleworth Monday and Wednesday afternoons
New Heston Road Monday and Tuesday afternoons.
Friday morning.
Cranford Memorial Hall Monday and Friday afternoons,
(c) Immunisation and vaccination clinics
92 Bath Road Hounslow Wednesday afternoon Thursday
morning.
Busch Corner, Isleworth Tuesday (fortnightly) afternoon
New Heston Road Tuesday (fortnightly) morning
(d) Artificial Sunlight clinics (winter months)
92 Bath Road, Hounslow ) Tuesday and Friday afternoons
Busch Corner, Isleworth) Tuesday and Friday afternoons
(e) Dental clinics
92 Bath Road Hounslow ) Monday to Friday daily and
Busch Corner, Isleworth) Saturday mornings,
(f) Day nurseries Approved accommodation,
Nantly House, Lampton Road 54 children
Acton Lodge Brentford End 35 children,
These day nurseries admit children aged 0-5 years and a charge is made for the
care of the children
(g) Midwifery Service,
Certified midwives are employed for attendance as midwives or maternity
nurses at domiciliary confinements. Gas and air analgesia is available.
Maternity outfits are supplied free for home confinements.
(h) Home Nursing,
Male and female nurses are employed as " district'" nurses. Where nursing
equipment is required for use in the home, arrangements have been made for
this to be supplied on loan through the British Red Cross Society at 78
Lampton Road, Hounslow.
(i) Health Visitors.
Health Visitors who also act as School Nurses are employed in clinics and
home visiting Their work is largely educational and social, and is
defined in the Act as "giving advice as to the care of young children,
persons suffering from illness and expectant and nursing mothers, and as to
the measures necessary to prevent the spread of infection."
(j) Domestic Helps.
Home helps are employed to provide domestic help for households "'where
such help is required owing to the presence of any person who is ill,
lying-in, an expectant mother, mentally defective, aged, or a child not
over compulsory school age." A charge is made for this service and in
assessing this, regard is had to the means of the persons concerned.
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