London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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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

Holborn 1950

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

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Table: Hospitals in the Borough.

Hospitals in the Borough.

Name and Address of Hospital.Telephone No.Type of Hospital.Number of Beds.
Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, W.C.I.Holborn 9200.Special Teaching Hospital302
London Homoeopathic Hospital, Great Ormond Street.Terminus 3091.Group 22, N.W. Regional Hospital Board.168
The National Hospital, Queen Square.Terminus 7721.Special Teaching Hospital154
Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, High Holborn, W.C.I.Temple Bar 1457.With Moorfieds and Cen tral Eye Hospital, Special Teaching Hospital.100
St. Paul's Hospital, Endell Street, W.C.2.Temple Bar 0161.With St. Peter's Hospital, Henrietta Street—Special Teaching Hospital.42
French Hospital, Shaftesbury Avenue, W.C.2.Temple Bar 5025-6.Voluntary Hospital.14
Ttalian Hospital, Queen Square, W.C.I.Holborn 6002.Voluntary Hospital.47

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Ambulance Facilities.
The London County Council, as Local Health Authority, is responsible under
Section 27 of the National Health Service Act, 1946, for the provision of ambulanc
facilities within the Administrative County of London.
The Home Service Ambulance Department (Order of St. John of Jerusalem and
British Red Cross Society) and the Hospital Car Service act as agents of the Country
Council in supplying some of the ambulance and car transport provided under the Act
The Headquarters of the London Ambulance Service are at The County Hall, West
minster Bridge, S.E.I.

Table: Ambulances may be summoned as follows: —

Ambulances may be summoned as follows: —

(1) Accidents—
Sudden illness in the streets, public places or places of employment. (Note—For sudden illness in the home a doctor, not an ambulance, should be summoned.Dial " 999 " (or follow the instructions given on the telephone instrument) and ask for— "AMBULANCE."
(2) Maternity patients (who have booked a bed in a hospital or maternity home)—Telephone—
Very urgent illness in the home (provided a medical practitioner certifies that the case is one of life or death and arrangements have been made with a hospital for the patient's admission).WATerloo 6000 CENtral 6301 REGent 4000 RELiance 3622 or NEW Cross 2645.