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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 1919
Report on the sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney for the year 1919
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With respect to medical relief provided by the Guardians, the
Clerk to the Guardians has been kind enough to give the following
information:—
"The Guardians possess a well equipped Infirmary, where
the patients treated are to a large extent suffering from acute
as distinct from chronic complaints. The number of patients
varies from 500 to 600 in the summer to 800 in the winter.
"The amount of out-door medical relief in recent years
has diminished considerably, but the indoor admissions have
increased. The Guardians are at the present time administering
out-door relief in money and kind at the rate of about £13,250
per annum. There is very little relief to able-bodied; the
recipients are aged, infirm, and widows with children.
"The admissions to the Infirmary include many ordinarily
able-bodied but temporarily disabled persons."
| Banstead Mental Hospital | 8 |
| Bethnal House Asylum | 1 |
| Bethnal Green Infirmary | 2 |
| Brompton Hospital | 1 |
| Cane Hill Asylum | 2 |
| Caterham Asylum | 5 |
| Cancer Hospital, Chelsea | 1 |
| Central London Throat and Ear Hospital | 1 |
| Charing Cross Hospital | 3 |
| Chelsea Hospital for Women | 1 |
| Children's Hospital, Great Ormond Street | 11 |
| City of London Lying-in-Hospital | 3 |
| Claybury Mental Hospital | 51 |
| Colney Hatch Mental Hospital | 17 |
| Dartford Heath Asylum | 4 |
| Downs Sanatorium, Sutton | 1 |
| Darenth Industrial Colony | 3 |
| Edmonton Infirmary | 1 |
| East London Hospital | 1 |
| Guy's Hospital | 2 |