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(b) 6, Morland Road.
This is a small house for low grade mentally defective boys.
It contains 20 beds which have been fully occupied throughout
the year.
(c) Coombe Cliff Convalescent Hospital.
This Home was opened in November, 1930, for the reception
of infants and children convalescing from acute illnesses. It is
available for any child resident in the Borough and approved as
suitable. The majority of the cases are referred from the Public
Health and School Medical Departments, but cases have also been
admitted from Mayday Road Hospital and at the request of private
medical practitioners.
(4) Fever.
The Borough Hospital, Purley Way.
The nominal accommodation is for 220 patients. Cases of all
the notifiable infectious diseases are admitted other than tuberculosis.
(5) Small Pox.
The Croydon and District Joint Small Pox Hospital Board's
Hospital is now used as the Borough Sanatorium. Arrangements
have been made with the Surrey County Council to receive into
their Clandon Hospital cases of small pox arising in Croydon.
Wher Hospitals.
Croydon General Hospital.
A voluntary institution at which the Council holds four clinics
conducted mainly by members of the staff of the Hospital. These
(a) Tonsils and Adenoids Clinic; (b) Orthopaedic Clinic;
(c) Venereal Diseases Clinic; (d) Ultra-Violet Ray Clinic. The
Council's Pathological and Bacteriological Laboratory is also within
'he curtilage of the Hospital; the buildings being provided by the
Hospital; the staff, equipment, etc., by the Corporation.
I am indebted to the Secretary, Mr. G. H. Dams, for the
following information:—
Male Beds 36 surgical
19 medical
Female Beds 34 surgical
19 medical
Children's Beds 22
A total of 130 beds.