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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
Hackney 1911
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1911
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PHTHISIS: SANATORIUM AND HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATION.
| Classes for which accommodation is provided. | By whom provided. | Where situated. | Total number of Beds. | How are patients selected ? | Are patients under the care of a resident Medical Officer ? | What charge, if any, is made for the use of Beds? | Do the Sanitary Authority use — (1) their Isolation Hospital, or (2) their Small-pox Hospital, for cases of Phthisis ? | Do the Sanitary Authority reserve Beds in any Phthisis Sanatorium: If so, how many, and in what Sanatorium ? | Do the Sanitary Authority provide portable open-air Shelters or Tents? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (a) Early cases | The Guardians of the Hackney Union. | Mr. P. Harold Jones, Sanatoria at Sandgate. | *9 | By grant of Indoor relief by Guardians and subsequent classification by Medical Officer. | Yes. | None to destitute persons. Liable relatives pay according to ability. | (1) No. | No. | No. |
| (2) No. | |||||||||
| The Guardians of the Hackney Union. | Hackney Union Infirmary, Homerton. | *20 | By grant of Indoor relief by Guardians and subsequent classfication by Medical Officer. | No. Under Visiting Medical Officer. | None to destitute persons. Liable relatives pay according to ability. | No. | No. | No. | |
| (b) Intermediate cases. | The Guardians of the Hackney Union. | Hackney Union Infirmary, Homerton. | By grant of Indoor relief by Guardians and subsequent classification by Medical Officer. | Yes. | None to destitute persons. Liable relatives pay according to ability. | No. | No. | No. | |
| (c) Advanced cases. | The Guardians of the Hackney Union. | Hackney Union Infirmary, Homerton. | *48 | By grant of Indoor relief by Guardians and subsequent classification by Medical Officer. | Yes. | None to destitute persons. Liable relatives pay according to ability. | No. | No. | No. |
| Total | Infirmary Sandgate | 120 Allotte d as required. I | |||||||
| * These numbers are for the 1st March. 1912. and the approximate number of total Phthisis beds in the Hackney Union Infirmary is 120. | |||||||||