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London County Council 1934

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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(6) Children's wards containing in all 35 cots.
(c) Two general wards which, with the single-bedded wards attached, will accommodate
66 patients.
Mile End hospital.
Extension of nurses' home to provide messrooms, kitchen and 82 bedrooms.
Paddington hospital.
Erection of new ante-natal department.
Erection of new X-ray and massage departments.
St. Charles' hospital.
Erection of new X-ray and massage departments.
St. Giles' hospital.
Rebuilding and enlargement of theatre.
Erection of new block comprising:—
(а) Receiving wards.
(б) Theatre tor minor operations.
(c) Ante-natal department.
(d) Eye, ear, nose, throat and dental departments.
(e) Massage department.
(/) Dispensary.
(g) Quarters for medical staff.
St. Mary Abbots hospital.
Reconditioning along lines indicated in respect of Lambeth hospital of institution block C,
previously occupied by healthy inmates, to provide accommodation for 100 sick patients.
Adaptation of a block (institution K) as accommodation for 39 nurses.
Adaptation and extension of former maternity unit to provide the group laboratory for the
western area of London.
St. Mary, Islington, hospital.
Erection at first floor level of:—
(а) Operating theatre.
(б) X-ray department.
(<•) Laboratory.
Provision of ante-natal and out-patient accommodation by conversion of disused theatre
and X-ray room.
II. minor works, classified under hospital departments and services.
1. Wards and their annexes.
(a) General wards.
Fulham hospital.
Provision of glass verandah for children's ward.
Mile End hospital.
Provision of open-air balconies for the male and female block (south ends).
Formation of day room for male patients suffering from tuberculosis.
St. Leonard's hospital.
Provision of children's baths in children's wards.
St. Olave's hospital.
Improvement of sanitary annexes in one block (3 wards).
Division of children's isolation ward (A.ll) into completely self-contained cubicles.
Completion of programme of providing open-air verandahs to wards. (Two wards so
improved in 1934.)
(b) Maternity ivards.
Bethnal Green hospital.
Provision of infants' baths.
Dulwich hospital.
Adaptation of a side room (E.l) as receiving ward for maternity department and erection
of a bathroom and sanitary annexe.
Mile End hospital.
Provision of an additional labour room (and of a nursery and babies' baths for maternity
department).
Formation of night nurseries.
New End hospital.
Provision of babies' bathroom in nursery.
St. Giles' hospital.
Provision of sterilisers throughout maternity department (also large dressings steriliser).