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Shoreditch 1931

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Hospital for Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Marasmus and Congenital
Syphilis—
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) 256 beds.
10 Sanatoria and Hospitals for Tuberculous Patients containing
beds as follows : 739 (Children), 210 (Women),
581 (Men), 632 (Men and Women). In all 2,162 beds.
20 Mental Hospitals containing 32,070 beds.
Children's Hospitals and Homes—
Queen Mary's Hospital for Children, Carshalton,
Surrey 1,274 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—
Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, W.C.I (male and female children).
Daily treatment (Sunday excepted) 9 to 10 a.m., Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
and Friday 2 to 4 p.m.
London, Whitechapel Road, E. 1 Gonorrhoea (Clap)—male and female. Daily
treatment between 9.30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Syphilis-—male and female : Monday
5 to 7 p.m., Tuesday 8.30 a.m. to 12 noon, Wednesday 10 a.m. to 12 noon.
Thursday 8..30 a.m. to 12 noon. Patients can also be seen at other times.
Metropolitan, Kingsland Road, E. 8 (male and female). Monday and Friday G to
7 p.m., Wednesday noon to 1 p.m.
Royal Free, Gray's Inn Road, W.C. 1 (females and children). Daily treatment
between 7 a.m. and 9.30 p.m.
Royal London Ophthalmic (Moorfields), City Road, E.C. 1. Male : Monday and
Friday 5.30 p.m. Female : Wednesday 1.30 p.m.