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Hospitals Provided or Subsidised by the Local Authority
in this District.
(1) Tuberculosis. Cases put forward from our Tuberculosis Dispensary
are sent by the County Council to various sanatoria, hospitals,
etc. The Greenwich Board of Guardians send cases away also.
(2) Maternity. The Municipal Maternity Home is discussed elsewhere.
(3) Children. The Albury Street Sick Babies' Home locally, and
hospitals such as Vincent Square, Evelina and Great Ormond Street.
(4) Fever. Metropolitan Asylums Board's Infectious Diseases
Hospitals.
Institutional Provision for Married Mothers,
Illegitimate Infants and Homeless Children in
the District.
Rest homes by the seaside, such as All Saints' Church, Margaret
Street, provides, are taken advantage of by those married mothers who
can pay a reasonably small fee. The Guardians similarly, send away
cases.
Ambulance Facilities.
(a) Infectious Cases. Ambulance service is available for infectious
cases at any hour of the day or night upon application to the
Metropolitan Asylums Board, either at the Head Office, by telephone,
or at any of the ambulance stations attached to the hospitals. The one
situate in this Borough is in Old Kent Road, adjoining White Post
Lane.
(b) Non-infectious Cases. The ambulance service of the M.A.B.
is also available for the conveyance of patients who are not suffering
from infections diseases, application being made in the usual manner.
For such cases a charge of 10s. is made.
The L.C.C. ambulances are available for use in street accidents, as
also are the police ambulances.
The L.C.C. Stations are as follows :—
North End Road, Fulham Buckner Road, Brixton
Herbrand Street, Russell Square St. George's Market, London Rd.
Montclare St., Bethnal Green Southwark, S.E.
High Road, Lee Woolmore Street, Poplar