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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 and other Hospitals 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.
Other 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
are: (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
the 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.
The number of in-patients treated during 1932 was 2,566 ; the
average stay of each in hospital being 16.84 days. The number of
out-patient attendances, including casualties, was 125,839. The
bed accommodation remained unchanged, but plans are in hand for
the addition of 61 beds.