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For this latter purpose, 210 beds are allotted for the admission of
war casualties.
No alterations of any extent were carried out at the Hospital
during the year.
(b) Maternity.
Patients in whom complications have arisen during pregnancy
or confinement, have been admitted to Oldchurch County Hospital
for treatment and, likewise, patients where the home environment
has proved unsatisfactory for the safe delivery of the mother.
Cases of Puerperal Pyrexia, and Ophthalmia Neonatorum have,
if necessary, been admitted to the Romford Isolation Hospital, under
our scheme of treatment.
(c) Children.
The facilities in this category remain as before.
(d) Other Cases.
Accident cases, and non-infectious cases, have been catered for,
either at the Victoria Hospital, a voluntary hospital with 31 beds, or
at Oldchurch County Hospital, which is under the jurisdiction of the
Public Health Committee of the Essex County Hospital, and which
has 860 beds. Both these hospitals are situate within the boundaries
of Romford. In addition, many large London Hospitals are within
easy distance of Romford.
Oldchurch County Hospital is also a la Hospital under the
Emergency Medical Services Scheme, and has reserved 700 beds for
the admission of casualties. The Victoria Hospital remains as a
hospital for the admission of cases of ordinary sickness.
During 1940, the Romford Council again granted a donation of
10 guineas to the Victoria Hospital.
2.—MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
(i) Ante-natal Clinics.
Our arrangements here were as before—3 sessions being held
weekly, but on the opening of the new Clinic building at Collier
Row (vide infra), 1 of the Ante-natal sessions was transferred to
this building from the Maternity and Child Welfare Centre at Marks
Road,