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Tuberculosis.—The Board provides hospitals as already detailed.
Cases of non-pulmonary tuberculosis in their initial stages are usually
treated for a time at most of the voluntary hospitals of the City, while
pulmonary cases (consumption) occasionally, and for only limited periods
may also be treated there.
Maternity Hospitals.—While there are no hospitals in the City devoted
exclusively to maternity, there are maternity departments and beds in
the following general hospitals:—
Maternity beds.
Westminster Hospital 15
St. George's Hospital 11
Charing Cross Hospital 15
There are also 28 maternity beds at St. Stephen's Hospital (Westminster
Guardians) situate in the borough of Chelsea; and 52 beds at
Sheffield Street Hospital (for lying-in women suffering from venereal
disease).
Other hospitals not within the City to which Westminster women are
admitted for confinement are St. Thomas' Hospital, The General Lying-in
Hospital, York Road, Lambeth (45 beds), The Middlesex Hospital, City
of London Lying-in Hospital, City Road (71 beds), Queen Charlotte's
Lying-in Hospital (75 beds). Clapham Maternity Home (moderate fees)
(50 beds).
The City Council as a Maternity and Child Welfare Authority has
arrangements with St. George's and Westminster Hospitals for providing
maternity beds for Westminster women. Detailed reference to this provision
will be found in the Maternity and Child Welfare section of this Report.
Children.—In-patient and Out-patient treatment for sick children is
provided at the following hospitals :—Westminster, St. George's, Charing
Cross, the Infants Hospital, Vincent Square (up to 5 years of age); and
at other hospitals in the City established for the treatment of particular
conditions or diseases of special organs, such as All Saints' Hospital,
Vauxhall Bridge Road (30 beds) and St. Peter's Hospital, Henrietta Street,
Covent Garden (32 beds) for Genito Urinary Diseases; St. John's Hospital,
Leicester Square, for Diseases of the Skin. (In-patient Department, 262,
Uxbridge Road (35 beds)).
Blind.—The London Association for the Blind, Rosedale House,
144a, Warwick Street, S.W. (Hostel—67, Belgrave Road, S.W.) for the
training and welfare of the blind.
Orthopaedic.—Surgical orthopaedic treatment is carried out in special
departments of Westminster, St. George's and Charing Cross Hospitals.
At Westminster Hospital there is in addition facilities for continuing the