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BECKENHAM AND PENGE JOINT MATERNITY
HOSPITAL
This Hospital is provided jointly by the Borough of Beckenham
and the Urban District of Penge and is administered by a Joint
Committee of members from the two authorities.
ACCOMMODATION PROVIDED.
The Hospital commenced admitting patients in December, 1939.
The ground floor of the building contains:—
1. The admission section.
2. A four-bed ward for ante-natal patients.
3. Out-patient Department.
4. Kitchen, domestic offices (including a small laundry) and
Staff dining room.
5. Office accommodation.
6. Room for sterilising dressings and the Dispensary.
The first and second floors each provide accommodation for
fifteen patients, with babies' nursery and bathrooms, ward kitchens,
sluice rooms and patients' bathrooms.
The fifteen beds on each floor are contained in:—
1. Two four-bed wards.
2. Two two-bed wards.
3. Three single-bed wards.
A complete labour and operating unit is provided in a wing on
the first floor.
The second floor of this wing contains the living quarters of
the domestic staff.
The Nurses' Home is in a wing at the west end of the building.
There is a detached Isolation Block in the grounds and this
block contains four single-bed wards, a duty room for the staff, and
an operating theatre.
Between the main building and the Isolation Block is a boiler
house.
STAFF.
The Nursing Staff at the 31st December consisted of:—
Matron.
Deputy Matron.
Sister Tutor.
Five Ward Sisters.
Seventeen Pupil Midwives.
ADMISSIONS
The number of admissions in 1945 was 601 compared with
373 in 1944, and 581 in 1943.
ANTE-NATAL SUPERVISION.
The Matron holds a Clinic on three days a week and saw 405
cases who made 3,591 attendances.
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