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General Hospitals—Group G.III.
Queen Marys hospital, Sideup.—A hospital for male convalescent patients.
Massage, dental and light-treatment departments. Occupational therapy. No laundry.
St. Benedict's hospital.—A hospital for female convalescent patients. Unit for
cardiac cases. Massage and electrical departments. No laundry.
General Hospitals—Group G.IV.
St. Faith's hospital, previously Brentwood colony.—For sane epileptic female patients.
Dental department. Various occupations available for patients (e.g., poultry keeping
and vegetable and fruit growing, gardening, rug-making and weaving). Laundry.
Bakery. Milk and bread supplied to other establishments.
St. David's hospital, previously Edmonton colony.—For sane epileptic male patients.
Dental department. Occupations for patients: brushmaking, bootmaking, basketmaking,
carpentry, farming, vegetable and fruit growing, tending and rearing stocks
of farm animals. Industrial departments—many articles made and repaired for
other establishments. Laundry.
General Hospital—Group G.V.
St. Margaret's hospital.—For (i) ophthalmia neonatorum (mothers admitted with
their infants), and (ii) vulvo-vaginitis (children). Allocated to the General Hospitals
service on 1st April, 1935.
General Hospital—See Group S.V.
Norwood hospital for children.—For the treatment of children's diseases. Attached
to the Norwood children's home, which if administered by the Education Committee.
Dental department. Sunlight and massage department. Unit for treatment of
rheumatism in children. Open-air shelters. Nursery for healthy infants. Isolation
block. Not a recognised training school for nurses. Engagements of probationer
nurses limited to two years. No laundry. This hospital is comparable with the
children's hospitals included in Special Hospitals group S.V, and therefore for the
calculation of averages and means and for the ascertainment of a flat rate of charge for
maintenance, the hospital is shown in that group.