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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.
Busch Corner, Isleworth
New Heston Road
Monday and Wednesday mornings
Thursday afternoon
Tuesday and Thursday afternoons
Thursday afternoon
(b) Infant Welfare clinics
92, Bath Road, Hounslow
Busch Corner, Isleworth
New Heston Road
Cranford Memorial Hall
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday afternoons
Monday and Wednesday afternoons
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
afternoons
Monday and Friday afternoons
(c) Immunisation and vaccination clinics
92, Bath Road Hounslow)
Busch Corner Isleworth)
New Heston Road )
By appointment
(d) Artificial Sunlight clinics (winter months)
92, Bath Road, Hounslow
Busch Corner, Isleworth
Tuesday and Friday afternoons
Tuesday and Friday afternoons
(e) Dental clinics
92, Bath Road, Hounslow )
Busch Corner Isleworth )
Monday to Friday daily and
Saturday mornings.
(f) Day nurseries
Nantly House, Lampton Road
Approved accommodation
54 children
This day nursery admits children 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 domicilary 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. There 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 person concerned.
(k) Prevention of Illness, Care and After-care.
The care and after-care of tuberculous persons is dealt with by the
Welfare Officer at the Chest Clinic Among other things, the County
Council scheme provides for the admission of persons, not in need of medical
or nursing care, to recuperative holiday homes and for this a charge
is made according to the person's circumstances.
(1) Ambulance Service.
Provision is made for the conveyance of sick, accident and emergency cases,
and the service is organised in association with the Fire Service. The
accident and emergency service is stationed at the Fire Station, Isleworth,
and the sick removal service at West Middlesex Hospital.
(m) Mental Health.
This service provides for the ascertainment of cases of mental ill-health
and mental deficiency, the statutory supervision and guardianship of mental
defectives living in the community, and the provision of after-care for
persons who have undergone treatment for mental illness. The office of
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