Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1947
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TUBERCULOSIS CLINIC,
Public Health Centre, Grange Road.
Patients are seen by appointment only. An evening session is
held for patients who are at work. Appointments are made at the
Public Health Centre.
SOLARIUM,
Public Health Centre, Grange Road.
Patients are seen by appointment at the request of their own
medical attendant.
(Light treatment, electrical treatment and massage).
Evening sessions are held for patients who are at work.
VENEREAL DISEASE CLINIC,
Guy's Hospital.
Women Monday to Friday (inclusive), 12 noon —6.0 p.m.
Saturday, 10.0 a.m. —4.0 p.m.
Men Monday to Friday (inclusive), 9.30 a.m.—12.30 p.m.
and 5.0 p.m. —7.0 p.m.
Saturdays, 9.30 a.m.—12.30 p.m. and 5.0 p.m.—6.0 p.m.
NURSING ASSOCIATION.
St Olave's (Bermondsey and Rotherhithe) District Nursing Association,
13, Cherry Garden Street.
INVALID CHILDREN'S AID ASSOCIATION
(Bermondsey Branch), 7, Storks Road.
Office Hours Monday to Friday (inclusive), 9.0 a.m.—6.0 p.m.
Saturday, 9.0 a.m.—12.30 p.m.
AMBULANCE FACILITIES.
The following facilities are afforded by the National Health Service.
Ambulances are provided free of cost for all purposes under Section
27 of the National Health Service Act, 1946.
Infectious Cases.
Telephone—Monareh 3000. At any hour of the day or night.
Patients will not be removed to hospital unless a medical certificate
stating definitely the nature of the disease is handed to the ambulance
nurse.