Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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Special Hospitals—
Queen's Hospital for Children, Hackney Road, E. 2 170 beds.
City of London Maternity Hospital, City Road, E.C. 1 71 beds.
Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital (late Moorfields), E.C. 1 138 beds.
St. Mark's Hospital for Cancer, Fistula and other Diseases of
Rectum, City Road, E.C. 1 72 beds.
City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Heart and Lungs,
Victoria Park, E. 2 186 beds.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital for Women, Euston
Road, N.W. 1 107 beds.
Hospitals under Public Health Department of London County Council used
by Inhabitants of Shoreditch—
9 Fever Hospitals (acute) containing 4,665 beds.
2 Fever Hospitals (Convalescent) containing 1,881 beds.
3 River Hospitals (Fever or Small Pox) containing 1,898 beds.
Hospital for Ophthalmia Neonatorum—
St. Margaret's, Leighton Road, Kentish Town, N.W. 5. 60 beds.
Hospitals for Venereal Disease—
Sheffield Street Hospital, Kingsway, W.C. 2 (Women) 52 beds.
Thavies Inn Infirmary, Robin Hood Court, Holborn, E.C. 1
(Women) 20 beds.
Hospital for Post Encephalitis Lethargica—
Northern, Winchmore Hill, N. 21 (part of) 125 beds.
10 Sanatoria and Hospitals for Tuberculous Patients
containing beds as follows: 725 (Children). 210 (Women),
581 (Men), 627 (Men and Women).
4 Hospitals for Mental Defectives containing 7,127 beds.
Training Colony for Improvable Imbeciles and the Feeble Minded,
Darenth, Dartford, Kent 2,260 beds.
Children's Hospitals and Homes—
Queen Mary's Hospital for Children, Carshalton, Surrey 900 beds.
The Down's Hospital for Children, Sutton, Surrey 360 beds.
St. Anne's Home, Heme Bay, Kent (Convalescent Children) 150 beds.
Contagious Diseases of the Skin and Scalp—
Goldie Leigh Homes, Abbey Wood, S.E. 2 218 beds.
Ophthalmia—
White Oak, Swanley Junction, Kent 364 beds.
Venereal Disease Clinics accessible from Shoreditch—
The London County Council (Whitechapel) Clinic, Turner Street (adjoining
the London Hospital), Mile End, E. 1.
Metropolitan Hospital, Kingsland Road, E. 8.
Royal Free Hospital, Gray's Inn Road, W.C. 1.