Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]
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Other.
The Officers of the hospitals have furnished me
with the following statistics concerning their work
last year—
Beds
No. of
new Outpatients
Outpatients
Attendances
No. of
Inpatients
Average
duration
Inpatient
treatment
(days)
Queen's Hospital for
Children,
Hackney Road
100
24,585
102,904
2,000
22.97
Mildmay Mission
Hospital,
Austin Street
City of London Hospital for Diseases
of the Heart and
Lungs,
56
16,012
55,462
899
17.45
Victoria Park
188
11,878
41,843
1,317
45.5
The Queen's Hospital also has 44 beds at a country branch,
the Little Folks' Home, Bexhill.
In addition to its importance as a consultative centre, both
in respect of Tuberculosis and Heart conditions, the City of London
Hospital carries on a great deal of research work.
The London Hospital, Whitechapel Road, although situated
outside the Borough, is also largely used by residents.
DISPENSARIES, &c.
The following Dispensaries exist in the Borough,
and I have been furnished with the following statistics concerning last year's work.
No. of Out-Patients' Visits to
Out-Patients. Attendances. Patients' Homes.
*Queen Adelaide's Dispensary,
Pollard Row1,598 4,378 537
§Medical Mission,
St. James-the-Less,
St. James's Road 360 5,118 253
†Medical Mission,
Annie Macpherson Home of
Industry,
Cambridge Road 3,222 23,141 4,436
*There is also a Dental Department attached to this Dispensary,
at which 346 persons received dental treatment.
†There were also attendances as follows :—Dental Department,
1,232 ; Eye Department 526 ; Massage and Sunlight 252; Chiropody
Clinic 570.
§In addition, 120 patients had dental extractions.