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(D) Hospitals Provided or Subsidised by the Local Authority—
(1) Tuberculosis—
(a) Borough Hospital.—17 beds are provided for advanced cases of tuberculosis,
of which 5 are in shelters; 9 are for female cases and 8 for men.
(b) Borough Sanatorium.—Fifty beds for the treatment of early, intermediate
and advanced cases, allocated as follows, viz.:—Surrey 30, Croydon
15, Kent 5. These are all for male patients. Arrangements are being made
for an enlargement of the institution to 85 beds—40 for Croydon, 40 for Surrey
C.C., and 5 for Kent C.C.
(2) Maternity—
St. Mary's Hostel, St. James' Road, Croydon.—This institution is conducted
under the auspices of the Croydon Mothers' and Infants' Welfare
Association. Seventeen beds (each with its cot) are provided. The hostel is
largely subsidised by the local authority.
(3) Children—
(a) Sick Nursery.—This is attached to the Municipal Infant Centre at
228, London Road, and provides accommodation for four sick or ailing children
under 5 years of age.
(b) Borough Hospital.—Selected cases of ophthalmia neonatorum, infantile
diarrhoea, measles, whooping cough, etc., are treated in the Borough
Hospital.
(4) Fever—
Borough Hospital, Purley Way.—The nominal accommodation is for 170
patients, and the cases admitted are mainly those suffering from the ordinary
notifiable infectious diseases.
(5) Smallpox—
The Croydon and Districts Joint Smallpox Hospital is now used as a
Sanatorium (see above). Arrangements have been made with the Surrey
County Council to receive into their Clandon Hospital any cases of smallpox
that would ordinarily have been admitted to the Joint Hospital at North
Cheam.
(6) Other—
Croydon General Hospital.—Two clinics are held in connection with the
Public Health Department's activities at this hospital, viz.:— (a) Tonsils and
Adenoids Clinic, and (b) Venereal Diseases Clinic. The local authority subsidises
the General Hospital for the work done in both of these clinics. In the
case of the Tonsils and Adenoids Clinic this subsidy only represents rent and
cleaning.
(E) Institutional Provision for Unmarried Mothers, Illegitimate
Infants and Homeless Children.—Provision is made by the
Guardians at Mayday Road Hospital and at various children's
homes; unmarried mothers are admitted for confinement to Mayday
Road Hospital, and to St. Mary's Hostel for the first confinement
only.
A voluntary institution in Croydon receives large numbers of
illegitimate children from various parts of the country, as a preliminary
to establishing them with adopting parents or foster-mothers.
The Babies' Help Committee of the Croydon Mothers' and
Infants' Welfare Association is specially concerned in dealing with
individual difficult cases of unmarried mothers and their children.
(F) Ambulance Facilities for Infectious Cases.—Two
motor ambulances are provided for the removal of infectious cases
from the area of the County Borough and from that of Penge
Urban District.