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Children's Hospital 100
Mental Ward 24
Wards for Chronic Cases 188
Wards for Acute Cases (including
Maternity Cases) 181
Isolation Beds 14
Tuberculosis Pavilion 68
Bungalow for Chronic Cases 21
The hospital is largely used as the general hospital for the
area, admitting the vast majority of local emergency cases and
accidents. The demand on the beds necessitates the admission
of more patients to every ward than the allotted number.
The Local Authority arrange for the admission to this hospital
of maternity eases, eases of puerperal fever and pyrexia, and eases
of pemphigus.
King George Hospital, Ilford.—A new General Hospital
was required to meet the needs of the large population which lias
grown, and is still expanding this side of London. It was decided
that this could best be effected by using the existing Ilford Emergency
Hospital of 70 beds as a nucleus and extending and converting
this into a large general hospital. The Charter, incorporating the
King George Hospital, was dated 14/1/1930. The extensions
were begun and it is hoped, by the end of the year, the hospital will
have 180 available beds.
A consultant Out-Patient Department is run at the hospital
to which cases are referred by appointment by their medical
attendants. General medical and surgical eases arc seen and'
gynecological, ophthalmic, and car, nose and throat surgeons are
in attendance. There is an X-ray and a massage department.
To meet the needs of the persons residing in this area, a local
Out-Patient building has been erected, run by the Hospital. this
building was designed so that a portion of it provided accommodation
for the holding of clinics, namely, infant welfare and ante-natal
clinics by the Urban District Council, and school clinics and tuberculosis
sessions provided by the Essex County Council.
The service to be provided by the Hospital Authorities to
begin with is of a two-fold nature: (1) Consultant scrvicc,
carried out by the visiting physicians and surgeons of the main