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Progress was made during the year in regard to the extension
of the Borough Sanatorium. In April, 1926, the extensions were
[completed and the Sanatorium opened for the additional patients.
If now contains 85 beds, 55 being for men and 30 for women. Of
these beds, 40 are allocated to Croydon C.B., 40 to Surrey C.C.,
and 5 to Kent C.C. patients.
7.—TUBERCULOSIS CARE WORK.
In April the arrangement came into effect whereby the
Croydon Council of Social Service undertook the work of Tuberculosis
Care Committee for the Corporation. Between that date
and the end of the year 123 tuberculous households were assisted
in various directions by the Care Committee, after consideration of
a report on the medical aspects of the case by the Tuberculosis
Officer, and on the social aspects by the Organiser for tuberculosis
care work and by the ward representatives in touch with the household.
The funds for the work were derived in part from a grant
made by the Corporation, the remainder being obtained through
the Red Cross or similar social agencies, or from the funds of the
Council of Social Service.
Adjustments of the arrangement with a view to ensuring its
fullest development were under review at the time of preparation of
this report.
8.—SYNTHETIC SUNLIGHT TREATMENT.
Arrangements are also made with Croydon General Hospital
during the year for the attendance of children, under the Materity
and Child Welfare, the School Medical, and the Tuberculosis
Schemes, at the Hospital for synthetic sunlight treatment at the
Hospital Light Clinic. The scheme had not fully developed within
the year. 38 cases had been in attendance for a period of some
weeks by the end of the year, making a total of 1,585 attendances.
One half of these have shown an appreciable degree of improvement,
and a number of these marked degrees of improvement. The
conditions under treatment were those existing from malnutrition,
general debility, rickets, suspected early tuberculosis, and similar
conditions.
9.—ORTHOPAEDIC SCHEME.
Arising out of co-operation between the Corporation and the
managers of the Croydon General Hospital, the latter established