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By the scheme required under the Local Government
Act, 1929, the Corporation has now made an agreement
with the London Comity Council for the latter
to receive into isolation hospitals provided by them for
cases of small pox, persons residing in this Borough
who are suffering from small pox. The Corporation is
required to pay a standing annual sum of £270, and
when cases are admitted from the Borough, a daily
maintenance charge per patient, subject to a minimum
charge equal to the standing charge, the maintenance
charge merging into the standing charge. The standing
charge will vary according to the number of
population.
Patients cannot be admitted to the London County
Council small pox hospitals until they have been verified
by the Borough Medical Officer of Health.
For babies suffering from ophthalmia neonatorum,
the Corporation has an arrangement for admission of
such cases to the L.C.C. St. Margaret Hospital, where
mothers can be admitted with the babies if necessary.
Corporation Maternity Home.
This is situated in Lavernock Road, Bexleyheath,
next to Bursted Wood open space, and provides 26 beds
(including two isolation). It was opened in Mav, 1937.
and has been running full since within six months after
that date.
General Hospitals.
The Bexley Cottage Hospital now provides for 25
beds and one cot, and hopes are held that the further
stages of expansion will not be long delayed. The
growth of the work done is evidenced by the following
figures extracted from the Annual Report of the Management
Committee for 1938:—
Total Patient
Year. Total No. of In-patients. Out-patients. Days.
1928
1937
1938
156
528
608
242
615
647
2,815
6,105
6,238
25