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NURSES.
The Shoreditch and Bcthnal Green District
Nursing Association has its headquarters just outside
the Borough, but undertakes a great deal of nursing
in the Borough, which occupies the services of
approximately 4 full-time nurses. Address : 80,
Nichols Square, E.2. Telephone : BIS. 5287. 850
cases were nursed in the Borough in 1935. An
account of the work of the Association on behalf of
the Council will be found in the Maternity and Child
Welfare Section of this report.
HOSPITALS.
Public.
London County Council : Bethnal Green Hospital,
Cambridge Road.
I am indebted to Dr. W. P. Greenwood, the
Medical Superintendent, for the following statistics
concerning the work of the Bethnal Green Hospital
for the year.
(Information as to the Midwifery work of the
hospital is given in a later paragraph in this report).
No. of admissions 5,371
Operations performed1,561
(including 902 under general anaesthesia
and 207 abdominal sections).
Out-patients (4,638) Attendances 23,543
Some idea of the wide range of medical work carried out in
the hospital may be gathered from the following figures about some
of the special departments :—
Dental: No. of patients 272. Attendances 595. No. of
extractions 120.
Dentures : full upper and lower 25, partial 4.
Massage : Patients treated 553 ; Treatments given :—
Massage 7,090
Electrical 1,536
Light 769
Radiant heat 2,995
Other 5,097
X-ray : In-patients X-rayed 2,195 ; Out-patients 1,356.
In addition, there are departments for pathological, bacteriological and bio-chemical examinations, and for venereal disease.