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cases, the Council addressed communications to them and subjoined is a
summary of the replies received:—
The St. George's Board has a workhouse and infirmary situated in
Chelsea with a casual ward in Wallis' Yard.
The Westminster Board has a workhouss in Poland Street, but sick
persons are sent to the infirmary in Cleveland Street, St. Pancras,
which is shared by the Strand and St. Giles' Unions. Attached to this
is a special institution at Hendon.
The Strand Board has receiving wards in Sheffield Street, a workhouse
at Edmonton, and uses the Cleveland Street Infirmary.
St. George's Union.—No cases of tuberculosis are retained in the
workhouse. In the infirmary 4 wards are set apart for these patients,
accommodating 84 males and 28 females. No consumptives are treated
in the other wards of the infirmary unless the special wards are full.
Westminster Union.—All consumptives are sent to the infirmary
(Central Sick Asylum).
Strand Union.—As a rule consumptives are sent to the Central
Sick Asylum, but some (at present 15 in number) who are aged, are
maintained in the workhouse at Edmonton. No separate wards are set
apart for them, they occupy the same wards as the very aged.
Central London Sick Asylum:—
(a) Cleveland Street.—Consumptives are isolated as far as is
practicable. One male ward of 34 beds is generally fully occupied
by these cases, and there is a small balcony which can be utilised
for 2 beds. If beds in this ward are not required for consumptives
they are used for general cases. The few cases among females are
treated in a general ward.
Where consumptives and other cases are put together, they are
separated as far as is practicable, the phthisis cases being placed
together at one end of the ward. Milk is allowed in addition to
the ordinary diet.
(b) Hendon.—One ward of 35 beds for males is used for openair
treatment, and another ward of 35 beds is always half full of
such cases.
One ward of 8 beds for females is set aside for open-air treatment,
and one ward of 35 beds is always about half full of phthisis
cases. Where consumptives and other cases are put together, the
phthisis cases are grouped together.
There is also a children's ward to which children are at once
sent from Cleveland Street; there is a balcony on which beds
are placed out in summer, and that occasionally a tent is erected for
women and children. The conditions are favourable, and the food
supplied is more nourishing than the ordinary dietary.