London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Kensington 1905
Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, etc., etc., of the Royal Borough of Kensington for the year 1905
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METROPOLITAN GENERAL HOSPITALS, POOR LAW INFIRMARIES, Etc., AND AMBULANCE STATIONS.
| Postal District. | Hospitals. | Infirmaries and Sick Asylums. | Ambulance Stations. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name. | Locality. | Beds. | Name. | Locality. | Beds. | Name. | Locality. | Ambulances. | |||
| Single Bedded | Double Bedded | Total. | |||||||||
| N. | North London | Tottenham | 120 | Holborn | Archway Road | 625 | |||||
| Islington | Highgate Hill | 840 | |||||||||
| Gt. Northern Central | Holloway Road | 159 | St. Pancras | Dartmouth Park Hill, Highgate | 540 | ||||||
| Shoreditch | Hoxton Street | 515 | |||||||||
| N.E.. | Metropolitan | Kingsland Road | 111 | Bethnal Green | Cambridge Road | 669 | |||||
| Hackney | Homerton | 606 | |||||||||
| Mile End | Bancroft Road | 460 | Eastern | Brooksby's Walk Homerton | 16 | 7 | 23 | ||||
| West Ham | Leytomtone | 741 | |||||||||
| Whitechapel | Vallance Road.. | 590 | |||||||||
| N.W. | Hampstead | Hampstead | 184 | North-Western | Lawn Road, Hampstead | 11 | 5 | 16 | |||
| St. Pancras (South) | Cook's Terrace, Pancras Road | 400) | |||||||||
| E. | London | Mile End | 820 | City of London | Bow Road | 511 | |||||
| Poplar & Stepney Sick Asylum | Bromley | 820 | |||||||||
| Poplar | Blackwall | 100 | |||||||||
| St. George-in the-East | Raine Street | 394 | |||||||||
| EC. | St. Bartholomew's | West Smithfield | 744 | ||||||||
| W.C. | Middlesex | Berners Street | 340 | Central London | Cleveland Street | 264 | |||||
| Fulham | Fulham Palace Road | 500 | |||||||||
| St. Mary's | Cambridge Place Paddington | 360 | Hammersmith | Wood Lane, Shepherd s Bush | 350 | ||||||
| Kensington | Marloes Road | 667 | |||||||||
| West London | Hammersmith Road | 175 | Paddington | Harrow Road .. | 284 | ||||||
| St. Marylebone | Notting Hill | 744 | |||||||||
| W.C. | King's | Strand | 221 | ||||||||
| Charing Cross | Charing Cross | 300 | L.C.C. | To be provided near Charing Cross | ? | ? | ? | ||||
| University College | Gower Street | 288 | |||||||||
| Royal Free | Gray s Inn Road | 165 | |||||||||
| S.W. | Westminster | The Abbey | 215 | Chelsea | Cale Street | 423 | Western* | Seagrave Road, Fulham | 11 | 4 | 15 |
| St. George's Hanover Square | Fulham Road | 776 | Mead* | Wandsworth Bridge | 12 | 3 | 15 | ||||
| St. George's | Hyde Park Corner | 356 | Wandsworth | St. John's Hill | 661 | South - Western†Tooting Beef | Stockwell (Landor Road Tooting (unoccupied | 9 | 4 | 13 | |
| ' S.E. | Guy's.. St. Thomas's | London Bridge Westminster | 602 602 | Bermondsey | Lower Road | 640 | |||||
| Greenwich | Greenwich | 538 | South-Eastern | New Cross Road | 12 | 5 | 17 | ||||
| Lambeth | Brook Street | 622 | |||||||||
| Lewisham | Lewisham | 401 | L.C.C. | To be provided near St.Thomas's Hospital | ? | ? | ? | ||||
| Camberwell | Brunswick Square | 819 | |||||||||
| Southwark | East Dulwich Grove | 786 | |||||||||
| Kent. | Brook | Shooter's Hill | 15 | 6 | 21 | ||||||
| Total Num-bers. | 17 | 5,678 | 29 | 16,370 | 8+2 | 86 | 34 | 120 | |||
| * North of the River Thames †South of the River Thames. | |||||||||||