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(2) Maternity.
St. Mary's Maternity Hospital, St. James' Road, Croydon.
This Hospital is conducted under the auspices of the Croydon
Mothers' and Infants' Welfare Association. Thirty-two beds (with
cots attached) are provided. The Hospital receives an annual
subsidy of £
4,500 from the Council as 30 of the beds are reserved
for cases referred by them. The Local Authority collects patients'
fees which amounted approximately to £1,549.
(3) Children.
(a) Observation Nursery, Lodge Road.
These premises occupy the upper storey of tbe buildings erected
by the Council. Accommodation is provided for 14 sick children
under 5 years of age, and a ward for the reception of two nursing
mothers.
(b) Coornbe Cliff Convalescent Hospital.
This Home is 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 are also 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.
General Hospitals.
Mayday Hospital—Local Authority's General Hospital.
During the year a new three-storey ward block of 66 beds was
opened at Mayday Hospital. This block is intended for acute