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SECTION G
GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES OTHER THAN
THOSE PROVIDED BY THE BOROUGH COUNCIL
1.(a) Laboratory Facilities
Bacteriological examinations are carried out by the Public
Health Laboratory Service (directed by the Medical Research Council
for the Ministry of Health) at the laboratory, County Hall, S.E.1.
This laboratory is available for both medical and sanitary
bacteriology. A stock of specimen outfits is maintained at the
Public Health Department and these are issued to medical practitioners
upon request.
(b) 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 1960.
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 301
Mlldmay Mission' Hospital 56
Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children(with
branches at Shadwell and Banstead) 287
* 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