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Hospitals.
Municipal.—Particulars of the various hospitals in the City have been
fully outlined in previous reports. One municipal hospital is situated in
the City, viz.:—that in Sheffield Street, controlled by the London County
Council, which has 82 beds, 30 for parturient venereal cases and 52
for ordinary cases suffering from venereal disease.
Voluntary.—There are 12 voluntary hospitals and two military
hospitals in the City.
The City Council has made agreements with certain voluntary
hospitals, viz:—
(a) With St. George's Hospital for the admission and treatment of
maternity patients.
(b) With Westminster Hospital for—
(i) The provision of maternity beds for patients sent through
the Council's maternity and child welfare centres.
(ii) The services of midwives to attend necessitous women in their
own homes.
(iii) The provision of skilled obstetric assistance to medical
practitioners in difficult cases of midwifery occurring in
the patients' own homes.
(iv) The provision of skilled medical assistance to midwives in
difficult cases.
(v) The services of consultants, pathologists &c., in cases of
puerperal fever and pyrexia.
(c) With the Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital, Golden Square, for the
treatment of ear, nose and throat affections in children under
school age referred thereto from the Council's Infant Welfare
Centre at Marshall Street.
(d) With the Infants Hospital, Vincent Square—
(i) For the treatment of ear, nose and throat affections in
children under school age sent from the Council's Infant
Welfare Centres at Bessborough Street and Ebury Bridge
and the Westminster Health Society's Centre in Marsham
Street.
(ii) Whereby the hospital acts as a consulting centre for cases
sent from the Council's and the Health Society's Centres.