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London County Council 1934

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

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Hackney hospital.
Conversion of former laboratory into nurses' lecture room.
Lambeth hospital.
Formation of a servery and scullery for the nurses' messroom, and of a sisters' messroom.
St. Benedict's hospital.
Conversion of disused kitchen into sports pavilion.
New End hospital.
Provision of nurses' lecture room.
St. Leonard's hospital.
Improvement of airing court.
St. Luke's hospital, Chelsea.
Adaptation of two houses (formerly matron's and steward's quarters) as accommodation
for 16 nurses
(c.) Domestic staff.
Constance Road institution.
Erection of a messroom and cloakroom for the laundry staff.
St. Olave's hospital.
Formation of new scullery for domestic staff messroom by partitioning.
St. Pancras hospital.
Modernisation of domestic assistants' cloakroom.
4. Administrative services.
(a) Offices.
St. Charles' hospital.
Provision of new offices for the medical superintendent and medical superintendent's clerk.
(b) Stores.
Constance Road institution.
Conversion of outdoor W.C.s and urinals into household storerooms.
Lewisham hospital.
Improvement and enlargement of steward's stores.
Queen Mary's hospital, Sidcup.
Provision of store for empties.
St. Nicholas' hospital.
Conversion of former boiler house into steward's stores.
St. Pancras' hospital.
Provision of store for empties.
(c) Dispensaries.
Holborn and Finsbury institution.
Enlargement of dispensary store.
(d) Cold storage for bulk meat.
Cold storage plant has been installed in the following six hospitals and
institutions:—Dulwich, Holborn and Finsbury, Mile End, New End, St. Charles,
and St. Leonard's.
(e) Mam kitchens.
In addition to the renewal, reorganisation and increase of kitchen equipment
at many hospitals, the main kitchens were tiled at the following three hospitals:—
Mile End. Paddington, and St. Peter's.
(/) Laundries.
Hackney hospital.
Improvement of ventilation.
Holborn and Finsbury institution.
Erection of a partition with new airing facilities.
Laundry machinery has also been increased or modernised at the following six
hospitals and institutions:—Highgate, Holborn and Finsbury, Mile End, St.George-inthe-East,
St. Leonard's, and South Grove (now under the management of the Public
Assistance Committee).