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SECTION II—GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH
SERVICES IN THE AREA.
Hospitals Provided or Subsidized by the Local Authority or by
the County Council.
Fever and Small-pox.— Hospitals for the treatment of
infectious diseases in the Metropolis are under the control of
the Metropolitan Asylums Board. One of these Institutions, the
Park Hospital, is situated in the Borough, and most of the
Lewisham cases are sent either to this Hospital, the Brook
Hospital at Shooters Hill, or the South-Eastern Hospital at
New Cross.
Small-pox cases are received for observation at South Wharf,
Rotherhithe, and sent for treatment to Joyce Green Hospital,
near Dartford.
Tuberculosis.—Institutional treatment for tuberculosis is
arranged by the London County Council.
Maternity.—The Lewisham Borough Council's Maternity
Home is situated at 41, Rushey Green, Catford. It was opened
in 1918 with twelve beds, which number was subsequently
increased to seventeen.
The Maternity Wards of Lewisham Hospital also provide
accommodation for Lewisham residents.
Accommodation for the treatment of infants suffering from
marasmus and ophthalmia neonatorum is provided at St.
Margaret's, Kentish Town, by the Metropolitan Asylums Board.
Other Hospitals.-—The only Voluntary General Hospital in
the Borough is the St. John's Hospital, Morden Hill, and this