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SECTION B.
GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES FOR
THE AREA.
1. (a) Staff.
The personnel of the Public Health Department Staff is shown at
the commencement of the Report.
(b) Laboratory Facilities.
The bacteriological work of the department continued to be carried
out by the Seamen's Hospital Society, Dreadnought Hospital, Greenwich,
to the end of October, 1949, after which date the work was undertaken,
as part of the National Scheme, by the Public Health Laboratory Service
(directed by the Medical Research Council for the Ministry of Health)
at the Laboratories at 134, Denmark Hill, S.E.5.
(c) Ambulance Facilities.
On the introduction of the National Health Service on 5th July,
1948, the provision of ambulance transport within the administrative
County of London became the responsibility of the London County
Council.
2. Hospitals.
The North-East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board is responsible
for the administration of the following Hospitals situated in this Borough:
Total bed
complement.*
St. Andrew's Hospital 640
St. Clement's Hospital 60
Poplar Hospital 119
From the 5th July, 1948, the Tuberculosis Dispensary, Wellington
Way, E.3, which was formerly a service provided by the Borough Council,
continued to operate under the control of the North-East Metropolitan
Regional Hospital Board.
3. Personal Health Services.
The following information and statistics relating to the Personal
Health Services, which are now under the control of the Local Health
Authority (the London County Council), in respect of the year 1949 have
been supplied by the Divisional Medical Officer (Division 5) London
County Council.
* These figures are provisional; the full complement of beds not necessarily being
staffed and in use.
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