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(D) Hospitals Provided or Subsidised by the Local Authority—
(1) Tuocrculosis—
Borough Sanatorium.—85 beds for the treatment of early, intermediate
and advanced cases, allocated as follows, viz.:—Surrey 40, Croydon 40,
Kent 5.
(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—
(а) Sick Nursery, upper storey of the Clinic premises in Lodge Road.
Provides accommodation for twelve sick or ailing children under 5 years of
age, in addition to an isolation cubicle, and a ward for the accommodation
of two nursing mothers.
(b) Borough Hospital. In addition to the ordinary notifiable diseases,
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 tihose 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.—Four clinics are held at this Hospital in connection
with the Public Health Department's activities, viz.:—(a) Tonsils and
Adenoids Clinic, (b) Venereal Diseases Clinic, (c) Orthopaedic Clinic, (d) Light
Clinic.
(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, to St. Mary's Hostel for the first confinement
only, as well as to a large maternitv home recentlyestablished
in South Norwood for the express purpose of dealing
with the unmarried mothers.
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 fostermothers.
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