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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St Pancras 1897
Annual report from the chairman of the health committee on the business of the department
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INFECTIOUS HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATION.
The following Return, kindly supplied by Mr. Duncombe Mann, Clerk to the
Metropolitan Asylums Board, shows the present hospital accommodation of the
Board:—
"Return showing the permanent Fever Hospital Accommodation existing and projected—
| (i.) Accommodation existing — | Beds. |
|---|---|
| Eastern Hospital | 356 |
| North-Eastern Hospital | 406 |
| North-Western Hospital | 470 |
| Western Hospital | 330 |
| South-Western Hospital | 368 |
| Fountain Hospital | 402 |
| South-Eastern Hospital | 463 |
| Park Hospital | 548 |
| Brook Hospital | 568 |
| Northern Hospital | 652 |
| Total | 4563 |
| (ii.) Accommodation projected— | Beds. |
| 6 | |
| 128 | |
| 104 | |
| 520 | |
| 12 | |
| (say) 700 | |
| Total | 1470 |
| Grand total | 6033 |
(1) Isolation block note being erected.
(2) Additional beds when re-constructed.
(3) Extension buildings approaching completion.
N.B.—The Western extension and the Grove Hospital will be ready in a few months.
For Small-Pox Patients the existing accommodation is as follows: —
Hospital Ships 300
Gore Farm, Upper Hospital 1000
(At present occupied by Scarlet Fever Patients)
Gore Farm, Lower Hospital (Wooden buildings) 192
Total 1492"
THE NEW AMBULANCE STATION,
adjoining the North Western Hospital in Fleet Road, Hampstead, about 200 yards
beyond the boundary of St. Pancras, at the western end of the Mansfield Road,
Gospel Oak, commenced operations on the 1st September, 1897. A description of
this Ambulance Station, which is the nearest to St. Pancras, was given in the
Annual Report for 1896.