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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 Houfislow, 81 beds) and one fever hospital (South Middlesex,
140 beds) are situate in the Borough. Part of the accommodation in the fever hospital
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
New Heston Road
Tuesday and Thursday afternoons
Thursday afternoon
(b) Infant Welfare Clinics
92, Bath Road, Hounslow
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday afternoons
Busch Corner, Isleworth
New Heston Road
Monday and Wednesday afternoons
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
afternoons
Cranford (Holy Angel's
Church Hall, Bath Road)
Friday afternoon
(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 Tuesday and Friday afternoons
Busch Corner, Isleworth Tuesday and Friday afternoons
(e) Dental clinics
92, Bath Road, Hounslow
Busch Corner, Isleworth
Monday to Friday daily and
Saturday mornings
(f) Day nurseries Approved accommodation
Nantly House, Lampton Road 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. 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 held is required owing to the presence of any person who is ill,
lying-in, an expectwt mother, mentally, defective, aged, or a child not
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