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(I)) Hospitals provided or subsidised by the Local Authority:—
(1) Tuberculosis—
(a) Borough Hospital. 17 Beds are provided for advanced cases of tuberculosis
of which 5 are in shelters; 9 are for female cases and 8 for men.
(b) Borough Sanatorium.—Fifty beds for the treatment of early, intermediate
and advanced cases, allocated as follows, viz. Surrey 30, Croydon
15, Kent 5. These are all for male patients.
(2) Maternity—
St. Mary's Hostel, St. James' Road, Croydon.—This institution is conducted
under the auspices of the Croydon Mothers' and Infants' Welfare
Association. Seventeen beds (each with its cot) are provided. The hostel is
largely subsidised by the local authority.
(3) Children—
(a) Sick Nursery.—This is attached to the Municipal Infant Centre at
228, London Road, and provides accommodation for five sick or ailing children
under 5 years of age.
(b) Borough Hospital.—Cases of ophthalmia neonatorum and infantile
diarrhoea are treated in the Borough Hospital.
(4) Fever—
Borough Hospital. Waddon Marsh Lanc. -The nominal accommodation
is for 170 patients, and the cases admitted are those suffering from the
ordinary notifiable infectious diseases. During the latter part of 1921 there
were upwards of 230 patients under treatment at one time, and the Corporation
are considering the question of providing additional accommodation at an
early date.
(5) Smallpox—
The Croydon and Districts Smallpox Hospital is now used as a Sanatorium
(see ante). Arrangements have been made with the Surrey County
Council to reccive into their Clandon and Whitmoor Hospitals any cases of
smallpox that would ordinarily have been admitted to the Joint Hospital at
North Cheam.
(6) Other—
Croydon General Hospital.—Two clinics arc held in connection with the
Public Health Department's activities at this hospital, viz. :—(a) Tonsils and
Adenoids Clinic, and (b) Venereal Diseases Clinic. The local authority subsidises
the General Hospital for the work done in both of these clinics. In the
case of the Tonsils and Adenoids Clinic this subsidy only represents rent and
cleaning.
(E) Institutional provision for unmarried mothers, illegitimate
infants and homeless children.—A few cases of illegitimate children are
dealt with by the Croydon Mothers and Infants Welfare Association by
being sent to institutions which receive such cases, but none of these
institutions are within the Borough. Unmarried mothers are admitted
to St. Mary's Hostel for their first confinement only.
(F) Ambulance Facilities.—(a) For Infectious Cases.—A motor
ambulance is prov ided for the removal of infectious cases from the area
of the County Borough and from that of Penge Urban District (See page
96).