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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
Lambeth 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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will enable the service to be placed upon a permanent footing.
Every effort is made to obtain the services of medical men and
women in the consultant class in order that the standard of advice
and medical examination of toddlers shall be as high as can be
obtained.
Particulars of the numbers receiving treatment now follow:— Number of Patients Receiving Treatment, and Cost, for Ten Months, March—December, 1937 (inclusive).
| Hospitals | No. of Patients | Cost | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| s. | d. | |||
| Belgrave Hospital | 117 | 38 | 0 | 6 |
| King's College Hospital | 57 | 18 | 10 | 6 |
| St. Thomas's Hospital | 27 | 8 | 16 | 6 |
| Waterloo Hospital | 9 | 2 | 18 | 6 |
| 210 | £68 | 5 | 0 | |
| Cases referred by welfare centres | Belgrave | King's | St. Thomas's | Waterloo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Marsh | — | — | — | 5 |
| Barley Mow | — | — | 3 | — |
| Babies' Care | 5 | — | 1 | 3 |
| Moffat Institute | 2 | — | 1 | — |
| St. Anne's | 16 | 2 | 3 | —. |
| Rose McAndrew | 12 | 1 | 9 | — |
| North Brixton | 38 | 3 | 2 | — |
| Stockwell | 4 | 5 | — | — |
| Brixton | 18 | 2 | 2 | — |
| Loughborough | 11 | 29 | 1 | 1 |
| Norwood | 11 | 15 | — | — |
| St. Thomas's | — | — | 5 | — |
| 117 | 57 | 27 | 9 |