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Name:—St. John's Hospital for Skin Diseases.
Situation:—262, Uxbridge Road, W.12.
Purpose :—For Skin Diseases.
No. of available beds :—40.
If used by persons resident outside the area, in what
proportion:—The Hospital does not serve any particular
area.
Management :—The Board of Management for St. John's
Hospital for Diseases of the Skin.
No. of beds available for each sex:—
M. F.
Skin Diseases 19 21
Facilities available for.-—
(1) Operative Surgery.—Nil.
(2) X-Ray.—X-Ray Out-patients' Department at 5, Lisle
Streef, Leicester Square, W.C.2.
(3) Dental.—Hon. Dental Surgeon.
(4) Ophthalmic.—Sent to various hospitals.
(5) Massage.—None.
Arrangements for pathological work.—At Out-Patients'
Department, 5, Lisle Street, W.C.2.
No. of patients during 1938 :—337 in-patients.
Is the hospital provision far the area adequate1—Yes, excepting
for children under 3 years of age and pay beds.
Name —Royal Masonic Hospital.
The Royal Masonic Hospital provides accommodation for
paying patients, primarily of limited means, being Freemasons,
their wives and dependent children.
The number of beds available is 145, to be increased to 200,
one-third being for General Medical and two-thirds for
General Surgical services. Approximately one-third for
females.
There are two sections for children of 20 beds in all.
The Hospital is being opened up gradually.
Five theatres have been provided for operative Surgery.
Facilities are also available for X-Ray, Dental, Ophthalmic
and Massage and a well-equipped Electro-Therapy
Department.
Special arrangements have been made for pathological
work.
No. of patients during 1938 :—1,637