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Details of major building schemes completed since 1948 are given in Table (i) and
in the sections dealing with the ambulance service at page 73 and in Appendix A. (A
modern ambulance station is pictured opposite page 49. Other pictures of ambulance
stations appear at page 77.)
Numerous minor works of improvement have been undertaken at existing
ambulance stations to secure greater operational efficiency.
Other health service premises
Hostels for
tuberculous
men
In 1950 it was decided to provide special residential accommodation for infective
tuberculous men who had reached their maximum degree of improvement under
hospital treatment but could not be discharged because they were homeless.
The first hostel was provided in 1951 in a large house at Highbury Quadrant,
Islington, which had been adapted. A second hostel was opened in 1953, at Hurlingham
Lodge, Fulham, which, after adaptation and redecoration, came into full use a year later.
The hostel at Highbury Quadrant was replaced in 1954 by improved premises at
Cromwell Lodge, Hornsey, and a further hostel was opened at Knight's Hill House,
Lambeth, in 1958.
Each hostel contains ample lounge and dining accommodation and a series of
bedrooms, W.C.s, bathrooms and a sputum disposal sluice room. A suite of rooms is
allocated to the warden and his family and an equipped consulting room is provided
for visiting doctors.
Recuperative
holiday
homes
The Mayfield Recuperative Holiday Home, Mayfield, Sussex, which was transferred
to the Council in 1948, proved to be uneconomical to maintain and was replaced in
1950 by Roland House Hohday Home, Littlehampton, Sussex, which had been acquired
and adapted to provide accommodation for 36 children.
In view of difficulties experienced in arranging recuperative holidays for older
children the Council entered into an agreement with the trustees of the Surrey
Convalescent Home for Children, Cambridge House, Bognor Regis, Sussex, to take
over and manage the premises as a hohday home for 44 children. The building was
brought into use in 1958 after works of improvement and redecoration had been
completed.

* Scheme initiated prior to 5 July, 1948.
† Accommodation also provided for school treatment centre.
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