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In addition to the above-named Hospitals, the Board have in course of
erection : —
The Park Hospitil, at Hither Green, for 548 patients.
The Grove Hospital, at Tooting, for 520 „
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"The Board have also secured a site for a Convalescent Hospital at
Carshalton, on which they propose to provide for 700 convalescent fever and
diphtheria patients.
" It is anticipated that the Park Hospital will be opened about next July,
and the Grove Hospital sometime in 1898.
"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 192
(Wooden buildings).
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"Joyce Green Estate.—On this estate the managers proposed to provide
beds for 940 patients, but the Local Government Board have refused to
sanction provision being made for more than 400 patients " (for small-pox).
N. W. AMBULANCE STATION.
A communication recently addressed to the Clerk of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board elicited satisfactory information as to the progress of the Ambulance
Station at the North-Western Fever Hospital in the Fleet Road : —
"The North-Western Ambulance Station will probably be opened for work
about the beginning of July next.
"Its operations, at first, will not extend beyond the four or five contiguous
Parishes ; but in settling the accommodation for staff, horses, and carriages,
the possibilities of future developments have been considered.
"At the main entrance from Lawn Road are quarters for eight nurses
engaged on Small-pox Ambulance duty. These quarters, it is hoped, will
rarely be occupied; but in the event of an epidemic of Small-pox they will be
of great service, as it is, of course, undesirable to lodge nurses engaged on
Small-pox work with those employed in the adjoining Fever Hospital.
"Then come, on the right hand side of the yard, the Superintendent's
quarters, the female domestic servants' quarters, the laundry and stores.