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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hammersmith 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]
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Arrangements for pathological work :—Own laboratories,
British Post-graduate Medical School and St. Mary
Abbot's Hospital.
No. of patients during 19_38 :—Admissions = 52,000 (in- and
out-patients).
HOSPITALS—VOLUNTARY.
Name :—West London Hospital.
Situation:—Hammersmith Road, W.6.
Purpose:—General Hospital for treatment of sick poor as
In and Out-patients.
No. of available beds :—239.
If used by persons resident outside the area, in what
proportion :—75-80 per cent.
Management:—Board of Management.
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Facilities available for:—
2 Major Operation Theatres.
(1) Operative Surgery.— 1 Out-patient Theatre.
1 Casualty Theatre.
(2) X-Ray.—Diagnostic and Therapeutic Departments.
(3) Dental.—Clinics held twice weekly in Out-patients'
Department (Extractions only).
(4) Ophthalmic.—Three sessions a week in Out-patients'
Department.
(5) Massage.—Department open daily.