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SECTION B
GENERAL PROVISION OP 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 che
Ministry of Health) at 134, Denmark Hill, S.E.5-
(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 1951-
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2. Hospitals
The following Hospitals in the Borough continued to be administered
by the North East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board:-
Total bed complement ø
Bethnal Green Hospital 315
Mildmay Mission Hospital 56
Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children (with
branches at Shadwell and Banstead) 317
ø 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