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II. GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES.
HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATION.
Fever.—The isolation hospitals of the London County Council I
receive cases of Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria and Membranous Croup,
Enteric, Typhus and Continued Fevers, Relapsing Fever, Anterior
Poliomyelitis, Encephalitis Lethargica, Cerebro.Spinal Fever,
Puerperal Fever, Puerperal Pyrexia, Malaria, Dysentery, Ophthalmia
Neonatorum, and cases of Measles and Whooping Cough.
Smallpox.—The Special Isolation Hospitals of the London
County Council.
Tuberculosis.—The London County Council accept cases for
admission to their hospitals and sanatoria on the recommendation
of the Tuberculosis Officer.
Maternity.—The number of births in hospitals to Stoke
Newington residents given below, shows the popularity of these
institutions:—
Salvation Army Mothers'Hospital 66
City of London Maternity Hospital 82
Mildmay Maternity Nursing Home 50
Royal Free Hospital 46
Home Hospital for Women 9
Hackney Hospital (L.C.C.) 110
Jewish Maternity Hospital 32
Royal Northern Hospital 14
University College Hospital 19
18 Other Hospitals 61
7 Nursing Homes 16
Total 505
Thus 70 per cent, of the total births took place in institutions
as compared with 63 per cent, the previous year.
There are two Institutions situated within the borough:—
(i) Stoke Newington Home Hospital for Women.—This
Institution was established in 1825, " for the benefit of respectable
women who have broken down in health, to whom the rest and
medical treatment combined with good food and nursing prove
to be a great boon."
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