ABSTRACT
A new maternity hospital is being erected by the Borough Council, which will have 25 beds for mothers and 6 beds for infants suffering from diseases of infancy. The Great Western Railway Medical Fund Society was established in 1847, and has had a continuously prosperous career. There is active co-operation between the dental and medical services of the society. The municipal work in the hospital treatment of pneumonia compensates largely for the great deficiency of voluntary hospital beds for serious medical patients in Swindon. The hospital attached to the dispensary has a matron and nurses. Swindon has a separate education authority, which is solely responsible for the medical care of its school children. It is also responsible for maternity and child welfare work, excepting the supervision of midwives. The availability of consultant facilities, and especially of unlimited pathological help, contrasts very favourably with the usual lack of such assistance in the medical work of the National Insurance Act.
