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LABORATORY FACILITIES.
(a) Pathological Department, Whipps Cross Hospital, E.ll.
For pathological specimens.
(b) Central Public Health Laboratory, Colindale.
For special bacteriological investigations ; supply of lymph for
vaccination ; supply of diphtheria toxin (A.P.T.).
(c) Counties Public Health Laboratories, Queen Victoria Street, London.
For bacterial and chemical examination of water, milk and other
foods.
(d) Public Analysts, Analytical Laboratory, 20, Eastcheap, E.C.3.
For analysis under provisions of Food and Drugs Act, 1938.
AMBULANCE FACILITIES.
In July, 1948, the County Council became responsible for the provision
of ambulance facilities in the area. The service is now administered
centrally from Chelmsford, the vehicles and staff being accommodated at
the Ambulance Depot in Auckland Road. (Telephone: LEY 6077/8).
HOSPITALS
The following hospitals, administered by the Leytonstone (No. 10)
Group Hospital Management Committee on behalf of London N.E.
Regional Hospital Board, are situated within the Borough of Leyton.
(a) Whipps Cross Hospital.
Accommodation : 974 beds.
(b) Langthorne Hospital.
Accommodation : 707 beds.
NURSING HOMES.
There are two nursing homes in the Borough registered under the
provisions of the Public Health Act, 1936 :—
1, Queen's Road, Leytonstone, with accommodation for 60 patients;
" Brooklands," 22 Fairlop Road, Leytonstone, with accommodation
for 25 patients.
Sanitary Circumstances of the Area
PART I—COMMENT
Housing and Nuisance Abatement.
Broadly speaking, the work of the Public Health Department in relation
to housing is concerned with the repair, demolition and closure of
unfit houses and slum clearance. Dwelling-houses are inspected as a
general routine or on complaint, and statutory action taken as appropriate
to secure the remedying of defects and abatement of nuisances.
One of the major responsibilities of the local sanitary authority is
that of maintaining in habitable condition existing housing accommodation.
The importance of the task confronting the sanitary department
may be gathered from the fact that during the 12-month period under
review some 15,360 inspections and reinspections were made by Public
Health Inspectors under the Public Health Act, Housing Acts and
relevant legislation, and 2,288 complaints regarding unsatisfactory
housing conditions were investigated. As a result of these inspections