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General Provisions of Health Services in the Borough.
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, at 52 Wickham
Road, S.E. 4. (See Reports later).
(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, City
7200, 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 infectious 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
are also 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
High Road, Lee Woolmore Street, Poplar
Peckham Road