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Finsbury 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finsbury Borough]

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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital, Euston Road.
A cot has been retained at this Hospital for babies or children
under five years of age at a retaining fee of £'2o per annum plus
a weekly charge of 30s. per week in respect of each case actually
admitted.
Last year seven cases were admitted to the Hospital under
the Scheme:—Bronchitis 1, Diarrhoea and vomiting 4, Otitis
media 1, Prematurity 1.
Other Hospitals.
The Council also have arrangements with the Queen's Hospital
for Children, Hackney Road, the Royal Free Hospital, the Middlesex
Hospital and the University College Hospital for the admission of
babies and young children. Thirty to forty shillings per week is
paid for these services. Last year 12 babies and children were
admitted for treatment and nursing :—Bronchitis 5, Bronchopneumonia
1, Diarrhoea and vomiting 4, Hernia 1, Otitis media 1.
Arrangements were made last year for the admission of ailing,
premature and marasmic babies, and mothers and babies for the
, re-establishment and regulation of breast feeding, to the following
Homes
(i) Cromwell House, Highgate Hill.
(ii) The Mothercraft Training Home, Chelsea.
At the former the charges are £1 10s. per week for a mother and
baby and 15s. for a baby, and the latter £2 2s. and 15s. respectively.
In 1937 one case was admitted with feeding difficulties.
Tonsils and Adenoids.
The Borough Council has an arrangement with the Royal Free
Hospital, whereby Finsbury children may be operated on for the
removal of tonsils and adenoids. The patients are detained in
hospital until all risk of haemorrhage is passed. The Borough
Council pays the hospital lfis. Od. for each case.
During 1937 the number of children referred for treatment
was 69, of which number 24 were operated upon during 1937,
and 14 are awaiting treatment; in 21 cases treatment was not
advised. The remaining cases either refused treatment or removed
before a decision was reached. All those operated on showed improvement,
and many have been sent away for convalescence to
complete recovery.