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(D) Hospitals Provider 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. Arrangements are being made
for an enlargement of the institution to 85 beds—40 for Croydon, 40 for Surrey
C.C., and 5 for Kent C.C.
(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 now (1926) part of the Clinic premises in Lodge
Road and provides accommodation for twelve sick or ailing children under
5 years of age, in addition to an observation ward, and a ward for the accom.
modation of two nursing mothers.
(b) Borough Hospital.—Selected cases of ophthalmia neonatorum, infan.
tile diarrhoea, measles, whooping cough, etc., are treated in the Borough
Hospital.
(4) Fever—
Borough Hospital, Purley Way.—The nominal accommodation is for 170
patients, and the cases admitted are mainly those suffering from the ordinary
notifiable infectious diseases.
(5) Smallpox—
The Croydon and Districts Joint Smallpox Hospital is now used as a
Sanatorium (see above). Arrangements have been made with the Surrey
County Council to receive into their Clandon Hospital any cases of smallpox
that would ordinarily have been admitted to the Joint Hospital at North
Cheam.
(6) Other—
Croydon General Hospital.—Four clinics are held at this hospital in connection
with the Public Health Department's activities, viz.:—(a) Tonsils and
Adenoids Clinic, (b) Venereal Diseases Clinic. (c) Orthopaedic Clinic, (d) Light
Clinic.
(E) Institutional Provision for Unmarried Mothers, Illegitimate
Infants and Homeless Children.—Provision is made by the
Guardians at Mayday Road Hospital and at various children's
homes; unmarried mothers are admitted for confinement to
Mayday Road Hospital, to St. Mary's Hostel for the first confinement
only, as well as to a large maternity home recently established
in South Norwood for the express purpose of dealing with the
unmarried mothers.
A voluntary institution in Croydon receives large numbers of
illegitimate children from various parts of the country, as a preliminary
to establishing them with adopting parents or fostermothers.