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16. HOSPITALS.
Hospitals provided or subsidised by the Local Authority:
(a) Smallpox.—By arrangement with West Ham, smallpox
cases are dealt with at Orsett or at the London County Council
hospital at Joyce Green. This arrangement with West Ham is
about to terminate, and I advise you to make an arrangement with
the London County Council for the admission of your cases to Joyce
Green.
One suggestion has been made of building, somewhere in Essex,
a hospital similar to the one at Joyce Green, Dartford. I believe,
however, that such a hospital would prove a white elephant, and
with the present perfected methods of transport, Dartford is not
really a very long way off.
(b) Hospital Provision at Upney Lane.—You, as a corporation,
have provided two hospitals. They are both situated in Upney
Lane, one for the isolation and treatment of infectious diseases, and
the other for maternity cases.
You are building a new isolation hospital, and the time has
come for building a new maternity hospital, to which should be
added a separate ward for the treatment of ailing infants, particularly
those under the age of one year who are suffering from
errors of diet.
Although the actual number of beds for which there is space at
the hospital is 38, if judged by the standard of 144 square feet per
bed, as laid down by the Ministry of Health in Circular 1119, dated
June 18th, 1930 (See Table I, Pages 27 and 28), the various wards
at the hospital are designed to accommodate more beds than this
number, and larger numbers than 38 have been accommodated
when necessary.
(c) General Provision of Hospital Services for the District.—
A special report has been prepared, and is here included, which
shows in tabular form the hospital services available, public ar.d
voluntary, for the people of Barking.