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 Finsbury Borough]
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examination of patients and contacts at work. Moreover, doctors
are at times hesitant about referring cases for an opinion when
they realise that this will involve the patients being sent elsewhere
for X-Ray examination. It further means that it is impossible to
undertake pneumothorax work in the Dispensary.
Hospitals and Sanatoria.
Hospital and Sanatorium treatment is provided by the London
County Council at their several institutions for patients recommended
for this by the Tuberculosis Officer.
During 1937, 218 patients received treatment in one or more
institutions of whom 70 remained in hospital on 31st December.
* These persons were treated in the following institutions:—
1. Special Hospitals:— | 3. Children's Sanatoria:— | ||
Brompton Hospital | 15 | Children's San., Holt | 1 |
City of London Hospital, Vic-toria Park | 1 | Heath End San., Farnham | 1 |
High Wood Hospl., Brentwood | 19 | ||
St. George's Home, Chelsea | 5 | Millfield San., Rustington | 7 |
2. Sanatoria:— | 4. Colonies:— | ||
Brompton Hosp. San. | 1 | Burrow Hill Colony, Fnmley... | 2 |
Paoworth Village Settlement ... | 3 | ||
Colindale Hospital | 13 | Preston Hall, Maidstone | 5 |
Darvell Hall San., Robertsbridge | 1 | 5. General Hospitals :— | |
Douglas House, Bournemouth | 4 | ||
East Anglian San. | 10 | Archway, Highgate | 58 |
Fairlight San., Hastings | 1 | Bethnal Green | 2 |
Hackney | 1 | ||
Grosvenor San., Ashford | 3 | Highgate | 6 |
Grove Park Hospl., Lewisham | 22 | Lambeth | 1 |
Hawkmoor San., Lustleigh | 1 | Lewisham | 1 |
Mile End | I | ||
Hawthorndene San., I.O.W. | 3 | Paddington | 1 |
Holy Cross San., Haslemere | 3 | St. Alphege's, Greenwich | 1 |
Ipswich San. | 2 | St. Andrews, Bow | 1 |
St. Charles. Ladbroke Grove | 5 | ||
K. Geo. V San., Godalming | 8 | St. George-in-the-East | 2 |
Liverpool San., Frosham | 5 | St. James, Balham | 1 |
National San., Benenden | 3 | St. Joseph's Hospice, Hoxton | 1 |
St. Leonard's, Shoreditch | 6 | ||
National San., Ventnor | 1 | St. Luke's, Chelsea | :s |
Northern Hosp., Winchmore Hill | 7 | St. Mary Abbot's, Kensington | 3 |
Old Manor Ho., Broadstairs | 1 | St. Olave's, Bermondsey | 1 |
Pinewood San., Wokingham | 7 | St. Stephen's, Fulham | 4 |
S. Barnabas Home, Torquay | 1 | 6. Surgical Tuberculosis Hospitals: | |
St. Luke's Home, Torquay | 1 | Heatherwood Hospl., Ascot | 4 |
St. Michael's Home, Hayle | 2 | Queen Mary's Hospl., Carshalton | 16 |
S. Michael's Home, Axbridge | 3 | Roy. Nat. Orthopaedic Hospl., Stanmore | 1 |
Tait Convalescent Home, Broad-stairs | 1 | St. Luke's Hospl., Lowestoft | 6 |
St. Nicholas Hosp., Pyrford | l | ||
Tehidy San., near Camborne | 1 | St. Vincent's, Eastcote | l |