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SECTION 2.
GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES IN THE AREA
Hospitals Provided or Subsidised by Local Authority.
(1) Tuberculosis.—Sanatoria provided by London County
Council.
(2) Maternity.—Maternity Home, 78, Shooters Hill Road,
Blackheath, S.E.3, provided by the Council. Accommodation
comprises : —
(1) Receiving Ward.
(2) Two General Wards with 9 beds each.
(3) Small Ward with 2 beds.
(4) Isolation Ward with 1 bed.
(5) Two Labour Wards.
(6) Medical Officers' Room, Laundry, etc., together
with residential accommodation for Matron.
(Nurses, Probationers and Domestic Staffs
accommodation is at 105, Shooters Hill Road,
which is opposite the Maternity Home).
Extensions and alterations were made during the year,
fuller particulars of which are given on page 86.
(3) Children. —No hospital is provided by Council, but
arrangements are made with Deptford Fund for the treatment of
Greenwich Children and Grant made by the Council for this
purpose. A Grant is also made to the St. John's Hospital,
Lewis'ham, in respect of minor operations performed on children
referred to them by the Medical Officer in charge of the Infant
Consultations.
(4) Feyer and (5) Small Pox.— Cases of Infectious
Diseases are treated at the Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums
Board. The only M.A.B. Hospital in the Borough is situate
at Shooters Hill Road, near the Woolwich boundary.