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July, 1944, to the North-Eastern Hospital (26 of these patients were subsequently
transferred to a children's hospital in Liverpool) ; 208 orthopaedic children transferred
on 25th July, 1944, to Dryburn Emergency Hospital, Dryburn, Durham ;
13 children suffering from cerebral palsy transferred on 26th July, 1944, to St.
Faith's Hospital, Brentwood.
The Downs Hospital, Sutton—15 rheumatic children transferred on 17th July,
1944, to Scotton Bank Emergency Hospital; 45 other children subsequently transferred
to the North-Eastern and Joyce Green Hospitals.
Goldie Leigh Hospital, Abbey Wood—120 children suffering from ringworm and
skin diseases transferred on 19th July, 1944, to the Northern Hospital, Winchmore
Hill.
White Oak Hospital, Swanley—49 children suffering from ophthalmia and one
mother and baby with ophthalmia neonatorum transferred on 14th July, 1944, to
the North-Eastern Hospital. These 49 children were transferred on 16th August,
1944, to a children's hospital in Manchester.
Evacuation
of other
hospitals
On 31st July, 1944, the Minister of Health informed hospital authorities in the
London Civil Defence Region that as many patients as possible in hospitals in that
area were to be removed to other parts of the country in view of the anticipated dangel
of rocket bombs. All the Council's hospitals were involved, with the exception of
Heatherwood Hospital, Ascot, Pinewood Sanatorium, Wokingham, King George V
Sanatorium, Godalming, St. Faith's Hospital, Brentwood, and for a different reason
Sheffield Street Hospital and St. David's Hospital, Edmonton.
Certain priority classes were designated for evacuation. First—patients in the
acute general hospitals and base hospitals, not likely to be fit for discharge home
within a short period ; second—children not already evacuated ; third—chronic
sick and tuberculous patients. Patients who were not evacuated were mental
patients, and those suffering with venereal diseases, infectious diseases, epilepsy, postencephalitis
lethargica and ophthalmia neonatorum.
Evacuation from the acute general hospitals began on 4th August, 1944, and
from the chronic sick hospitals on 9th August, 1944.
All arrangements for the evacuation of the acute sick patients were made by
the Ministry of Health, acting through the London sector hospital officers. Chronic
sick and tuberculous patients were dealt with by the Council, and, in addition, the
Council arranged for the evacuation of the tuberculous patients from local authority
hospitals in London and the home counties in the London Civil Defence region.
The chronic sick patients were all housed in accommodation administered by
other authorities, but the following entirely new hospitals were set up for tuberculosis,
and were administered by the Council on behalf of the Ministry of Health :—
Abergele Emergency Hospital, Kinmel Hall, Abergele, North Wales—188 beds for
male patients and 12 beds for Service casualties. The hospital was opened on
22nd August, 1944. The bulk of the patients were from Colindale Hospital.
Naburn Emergency Hospital, near York—360 beds for male patients. The
hospital was opened on 22nd August, 1944. Patients were sent from Grove Park
Hospital, from tuberculosis wards in the Council's general hospitals and from tuberculosis
hospitals in London and the home counties.
Stannington Emergency Hospital, near Morpeth -380 beds for children and young
female adults suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis. The hospital was opened on
20th August, 1944, and contained the whole of the children from High Wood Hospital,
Brentwood, together with a number of young women from the Northern Hospital
and St. George's Home.
On 10th September, 1944, a fourth hospital was opened, viz., Turnberry Emergency
Hospital, near Girvan, Ayrshire, containing 200 beds for female chronic sick
patients and was used mainly to accommodate small groups of patients scattered