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Brook hospital
Eastern hospital
Grove hospital
*North-Eastern hospital
†North-Western hospital
‡Park hospital
South-Eastern hospital
South- Western hospital
Western hospital
Special Hospitals—Group S.l.
Acute fever hospitals. Men, women and children
admitted. Owing to seasonal fluctuations in the
incidence of infectious diseases the numbers of
patients under treatment at these hospitals vary
considerably throughout the year and it is only for
limited periods that the beds are fully occupied.
Average user of beds varies at the different hospitals.
Numerous diseases treated. Necessary classification
by age, sex, and disease involves distribution of
patients in many wards, which cannot all be kept full.
Many cases have, for medical reasons, to be treated
in single bed wards.
Joyce Green hospital.—-Used for fever or smallpox, as required, when the accommodation
provided at other hospitals for these diseases is insufficient. Opened for
the reception of fever cases from 28th June, 1933, to 16th February, 1935. Certain of
the essential services of Joyce Green and Orchard hospitals are operated in common with
Long Reach hospital (Group S.II). It is not, therefore, practicable to state separately
the numbers of staff employed.
Orchard hospital.—An emergency hospital. Opened for the reception of fever cases
on 13th February, 1934, and closed on 11th July, 1934.
Northern hospital.—Used for three classes of patient:—(i) convalescent fever cases
(men, women and children); (ii) pulmonary tuberculosis, advanced (women) (iii)
post-encephalitis lethargica (men, women and children). Observations (above) r iser
of beds at fever hospitals apply also to fever unit at Northern hospital.
Southern hospital.—(1) Upper hospital—For convalescent fever cases (men, women
and children). User of beds variable for reasons given above. (2) Lower hospital-—
Acute fever cases are treated there in times of pressure on the accommodation in the
town hospitals. Used for non-infectious convalescent cases (children) when not required
for fever cases. The lower hospital was opened, for acute infectious cases, on 28th
October, 1933, and closed on 19th May, 1934.
*The Northern Group laboratory serving a number of hospitals is situated at the NortliKastern
hospital.
†There is at the North-Western hospital a puerperal fever unit.
‡The Southern Group laboratory serving a number of hospitals is situated at the Park
hospital.