Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Name of hospital. | Mean of number of patients for whom washing was done. | Mean of number of staff for whom washing was done. | Average number of articles sent to be washed weekly. | Number of articles washed per week. | Per occupied bed per week. | Total number of articles washed during the year. | Cost per 1,000 articles washed. | Consumption per 1,000 articles washed. | Mean of number of paid laundry staff. | Output per head of paid laundry staff per week. | Mean of number of inmates employed in laundry. | |||||||||||||||
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Patients' washing. Per patient. | Staff washing. Per member of resident staff. ‡ | Average total number of articles washed. | Cost of average total number of articles washed. | Salaries and emoluments (laundry staff only). | Washing materials and laundry fabrics. | Fuel, gas, electricity, water, and plant repairs. | Total. | Soap and soap in soap powder. | Soda and soda in soap powder. | |||||||||||||||||
Resident. | Nonresident. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
SPECIAL HOSPITALS | No. | No. | No. | No. | No. | No. | No. | s. | d. | No. | £ | s. | d. | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | lbs. | lbs. | No. | No. | No. |
Group s.i | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Brook | 437 | 273 | 122 | 22,289 | 36 | 24 | 51 | 3 | 3 | 1,172,747 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 5.2 | 15.9 | 22 | 1,025 | - |
Eastern | 451 | 341 | 119 | 22,113 | 29 | 26 | 49 | 3 | 0 | 1,155,189 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 9.5 | 15.0 | 21 | 1,058 | - |
Grove | 465 | 371 | 72 | 25,287 | 37 | 21 | 54 | 2 | 6 | 1,314,931 | 1 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 6.1 | 16.2 | 20 | 1,264 | - |
Joyce Green | 544 | 356 | 2 | 18,299 | 20 | 21 | 34 | 1 | 9 | 967,929 | 1 | 18 | 10 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 12 | 3 | 6.2 | 25.2 | 20 | 931 | - |
North-Eastern | 506 | 315 | 129 | 23,651 | 33 | 21 | 47 | 3 | 0 | 1,549,884 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 5.6 | 14.8 | 29 | 1,038 | - |
North-Western | 365 | 212 | 60 | 19,092 | 37 | 27 | 52 | 2 | 1 | 876,383 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 6.0 | 19.0 | 8 | 2,107 | - |
Northern | 524 | 258 | 102 | 18,031 | 23 | 24 | 34 | 2 | 2 | 937,604 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8.1 | 19.6 | 17 | 1,061 | - |
Park | 390 | 288 | 81 | 19,182 | 28 | 28 | 49 | 3 | 3 | 997,460 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 4.2 | 14.2 | 19 | 1,010 | - |
South-Eastern | 388 | 275 | 111 | 21,372 | 39 | 23 | 55 | 3 | 6 | 1,111,355 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 13 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6.0 | 19.6 | 22 | 971 | - |
South-Western | 297 | 180 | 109 | 13,778 | 31 | 26 | 46 | 2 | 11 | 724,858 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4.7 | 21.6 | 13 | 1,072 | - |
Southern | 635 | 476 | 69 | 23,853 | 21 | 22 | 38 | 1 | 10 | 1,240,372 | 1 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 4.7 | 12.7 | 21 | 1,136 | - |
Western | 372 | 300 | 60 | 17,551 | 29 | 23 | 47 | 3 | 1 | 980,144 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 8.6 | 16.5 | 19 | 992 | - |
Group s. iv | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Colindale | 339 | 121 | 74 | 12,673 | 27 | 29 | 37 | 2 | 3 | 659,007 | 1 | 18 | 9 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 6.3 | 18.3 | 10 | 1,267 | - |
Grove Park | 316 | 139 | 57 | 11,151 | 23 | 29 | 35 | 1 | 11 | 579,856 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 4 | 6.8 | 18.3 | 10 | 1,115 | - |
King George V | 230 | 70 | - | 5,651 | 17 | 26 | 25 | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | • | * | ||||||||
Pinewood | 160 | 38 | - | 1,280 | 4 | 16 | 8 | † | † | † | † | † | † | † | † | † | † | † | ||||||||
St. Luke's, Lowestoft | 208 | 90 | - | 5,089 | 15 | 23 | 24 | † | † | † | † | † | † | † | † | † | † | † | ||||||||
Group s.v | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Downs | 338 | 137 | 80 | 12,782 | 29 | 23 | 38 | 2 | 0 | 968,625 | 1 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 2 | 5.7 | 13.7 | 14 | 1,331 | - |
Goldie Leigh | 159 | 63 | 35 | 5,182 | 24 | 23 | 33 | 2 | 4 | 269,482 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 9.3 | 24.2 | 5 | 1 036 | - |
Heatherwood | 131 | 69 | 19 | 3,367 | 12 | 25 | 26 | 2 | 5 | 87,548 | 2 | 18 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 9 | 9.2 | 6.2 | 5 | 673 | - |
High Wood | 399 | 98 | 73 | 13,059 | 25 | 30 | 33 | 2 | 3 | 791,766 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 9.6 | 17.6 | 15 | 1,015 | - |
Princess Mary's | 199 | 87 | 66 | 5,172 | 16 | 23 | 26 | 2 | 0 | 395,329 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 5 | 5. 6 | 12.6 | 8 | 950 | - |
Queen Mary's, Car- shalton. | 1,094 | 529 | 190 | 56,484 | 41 | 21 | 52 | 2 | 6 | 2,937,158 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 4.5 | 16.4 | 39 | 1,448 | - |
White Oak | 231 | 78 | 42 | 7,312 | 24 | 21 | 32 | 2 | 3 | 702,296 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 10.3 | 21.4 | 13 | 1,039 | - |
Group s. vi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Millfield | 93 | 30 | - | 2,028 | 14 | 23 | 22 | † | † | † | † | † | † | † | † | † | † | † | ||||||||
St. Anne's | 112 | 22 | 9 | 1,665 | 11 | 22 | 15 | * | * | * | * | * | • | • | * | * | * |
An asterisk (•) indicates that the washing was done at, and charged for by, another hospital or institution. † Washing done under contract.
‡ Owing to local conditions or capacity of laundry, the amount of washing done for non-resident staff varies considerably at the several hospitals. This column, therefore, for uniformity, represents the total staff washing apportioned over
the resident staff only.
Year ending 31st March. | Total number of articles washed in laundries during the year. | Average cost per 1,000 articles washed. | Average consumption per 1,000 articles washed. | Average daily number of paid laundry staff. | Average output per head of paid laundry staff per week. | |||||||||||
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Salaries and emoluments (laundry staff only). | Washing materials and laundry fabrics. | Fuel, gas, electricity, water and plant repairs. | Total. | Soap and soap in soap powder. | Soda and soda in soap powder. | |||||||||||
No. | £ | s. | d. | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | lbs. | lbs. | No. | No. | |
1933 | 55,911,508 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 16 | 10 | 3 | 11 | 6 | 8.1 | 22.3 | 1,133 | 949 |
1934 | 55,614,171 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 7.9 | 22.6 | 1,116 | 958 |
1935 | 55,187,934 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 10 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 8.2 | 20.3 | 1,078 | 985 |