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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.
The bacteriological work of the Borough 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.
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(c) Ambulance Facilities.
The London County Council which undertook responsibility for
the provision of ambulance transport within the administrative
County of London on the coming into force of the National Health
Service Act, 1946, continued to provide this service during 1950.
2. Hospitals.
The following Hospitals in the Borough continued to be
administered by 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 designated a Teaching Hospital
and under the control of a Board of Governors, is also situated
within the Borough and the Tuberculosis Dispensary established at
this Hospital, which serves Bethnal Green and part of the Borough
of Hackney, continued to function during the year.