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SECTION B
GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES
FOR THE AREA
1. (a) Staff.
The personnel of the staff of the Department is incorporated
at the beginning of the report.
(b) Laboratory Facilities.
For the first three quarters of the year the Laboratory facilities
remained unchanged, but for the last quarter the Borough's
bacteriological work was carried out as part of the National scheme
by the Public Health Laboratory Service (directed by the Medical
Research Council for the Ministry of Health) at 134, Denmark
Hill, S.E.5.
(c) Ambulance Facilities.
The provision of Ambulance transport in the administrative
County of London has been the responsibility of the London
County Council since the introduction of the National Health
Service Act, 1946, which became operative on the 5th July, 1948.
2. Hospitals.
The following Hospitals are situated in the Borough but the
administration is now in the hands of the North East Metropolitan
Regional Hospital Board:—
Total bed
complement*
Bethnal Green Hospital 650
Mildmay Mission Hospital 54
Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children (with
branches at Shadwell and Banstead) 302
* These figures do not necessarily represent beds staffed and in use.
The London Chest Hospital being designated a Teaching
Hospital is under the control of a Board of Governors. The
Tuberculosis Dispensary established at this Hospital many years ago,
which serves Bethnal Green and part of the Borough of Hackney,
has continued to function during the year.