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16. HOSPITALS.
Hospitals provided or subsidised by the Local Authority.
(a) Smallpox.—The arrangement with West Ham having terminated, a new
agreement was made with the Orsett Joint Hospital Board. The Joint Board have
a smallpox hospital of 22 beds at Grays, and the agreement provides that so long as
accommodation is available, patients from this area suffering with smallpox shall
be admitted to the hospital.
The contracting authorities to the agreement pay to the Joint Board a retaining
fee, of which the Barking quota (based on population) is £30 per annum, and in
addition a charge of 18s. 0d. per day per patient is made to the authority concerned.
Arrangements have also now been made for the use of the Joint Board ambulance
for the conveyance of patients to and from the hospital.
From the inception of the agreement to the end of the year, no Barking cases
were admitted, but one man normally resident in Barking was admitted from the
Romford district.
(b) Infectious Fever Hospital.—Barking Hospital in Upney Lane provides
accommodation for fifty-eight patients. This Hospital is one of the most up-todate
hospitals in the country. It was opened on the 29th September, 1932, by
Councillor A. Blake, the Chairman of the Public Health and Maternity Committee.,
(c) Maternity Home.—Upney Hospital consists of two galvanised iron buildings.
You are contemplating replacing these with a permanent hospital.
(d) General Provision of Hospital Services for the District.—A. special report has
been prepared, and is here included, which shows in tabular form the hospital
services available, public and voluntary, for the people of Barking.
17. MATERNITY AND NURSING HOMES.
With the exception of Upney Hospital, there is only one house in Barking used
as a nursing home.
During 1932, six births have been notified from this address.