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St Pancras 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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Section II.—GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES.
Hospital Accommodation.
A. Fercr and Small Pox.—Hospital accommodation is provided by the London County
Council, who now control the various institutions previously provided by the
Metropolitan Asylums Board.
B. Tuberculosis.—For patients suffering from this disease Institutional accommodation is
provided through the London County Council.
C. General, Children's and other Hospitals.—
The under—mentioned are situated within the Borough. The St. Pancras and Highgate
Hospitals are extensively used by residents of the Borough. St. Margaret's
Hospital admits cases of the kind specified from the whole of the metropolitan
area. The use of the various general and special voluntary hospitals is by no
means confined to residents either of this Borough or of the metropolitan area.
On the other hand, hospitals situated outside the Borough are largely used by
St. Pancras residents.
Hospital.
Number of
Beds.
London County Council General Hospitals.
St. Pancras Hospital, King's Road 380
Highgate Hospital, Dartmouth Park Hill 555
London County Council Special Hospital.
St. Margaret's Hospital, Leighton Road (for ophthalmia
neonatorum and congenital syphilis in children) 60
General and Special Voluntary Hospitals.
General 414
University College Hospital, Gower Street — Obstetric 85
Royal Ear 41
General .. 239
Royal Free Hospital, Gray's Inn Road Dental and Ear, Nose 43
and Throat 32
National Temperance Hospital, Hampstead Road 152
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital, Euston Road 105
West End Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Regent's Park 76
Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Endsleigli Gardens 76
Central London Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, Gray's Inn Road 78
Central London Ophthalmic Hospital, Judd Street 51
Metropolitan Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital, Fitzroy Square
St. Saviour's Hospital, Osnaburgh Street 21
North—West London Hospital, Bayham Street
St. Pancras Dispensary, Oakley Square
London Skin Hospital, Fitzroy Square Out—
Western Skin Hospital, Hampstead Road patients
British Dentists' Hospital, Camden Road only.
London Foot Hospital. Fitzroy Square
British Hospital for Nervous Disorders, Camden Road
British Red Cross Society Clinic for Rheumatism, Peto Place