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2. Maternity.—There is a well-equipped lying-in ward in
the Wellhouse Hospital, Barnet. One hundred and
forty-seven Finchley cases were admitted to this
ward in 1935.
3. Children.—A grant of £20 per annum is paid by the
Local Authority to the Royal Northern Hospital,
and in return the staff of the hospital see cases of
difficulty referred to them by one or other of the
Maternity and Child Welfare Centres.
4. Infectious Diseases.—Cases of the common infectious
diseases are admitted to the Finehley, Hornsey,
Wood Green and Friern Barnet Joint Isolation
Hospital at Muswell Hill, N.10. The hospital contains
150 beds, and during the year an up-to-date
and well equipped operating theatre has been added.
The Medical Officer of Health of Finehley is
Medical Superintendent of the hospital.
Cases of Puerperal Fever and Ophthalmia
Neonatorum are admitted to the North Western
Hospital and St. Margaret's Hospital respectively,
by arrangement with the London County Council.
5. Smallpox.—The provision of hospital accommodation
for cases of Smallpox is undertaken by the County
Council, and by arrangement with the London
County Council all cases are admitted to that
authority's hospital at Joyce Green, Dartford.
6. Other Hospitals :—(a) The Finehley Memorial Hospital
contains 72 beds and receives annually a grant of
two hundred pounds from the Local Authority.
The Local Education Authority has arranged
with the Memorial Hospital for the operative treatment
of elementary school children suffering from
adenoids or from enlarged tonsils.
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