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(2) Hospitals for Maternity Cases.
Maternity cases from this district are admitted, by arrangement
with the Council, to Oldchureh Hospital and Queen Mary s
Hospital, Stratford.
Cases of Puerperal Fever or Pyrexia are admitted to Oldchurch
Hospital, or to Rush Green Isolation Hospital.
(3) Hospitals for Children.
The following is a list of the hospitals at which the Council
has arranged that certain cases shall be treated :—
Tonsils and Adenoids—Queen Mary's Hospital, Stratford ;
Out-patients only.
Oldchurch Hospital; In-patients only.
King George Hospital, Ilford ; Outpatients
or In-patients.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum—St. Margaret's Hospital, Hampstead.
Pemphigus—Oldchurch Hospital.
(4) Orthopaedic Hospitals—Royal National Orthopaedic.
Queen's Hospital, Hackney.
Cheyne Hospital.
Institutional provision for unmarried mothers, illegitimate
infants and homeless children.
The only provision of this nature is that at the Institution,
Romford, previously under the control of the Romford Board of
Guardians.
Ambulance Facilities.
(a) For Infectious Cases.
A motor ambulance, provided by the Joint Hospital Board, is
stationed at the Isolation Hospital at Rush Green.
lb) For Non-Infectious Cases and Accidents.
Up to this year, the ambulance work has been carried out by
single Morris ambulance possessed by this Council. By agreement
with neighbouring Authorities, it was possible to call on
another vehicle should a demand come through for an ambulance
the local one was commissioned. Owing to the increasing
11 tmand made on the ambulance, a second one was put into