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Shoreditch 1933

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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9
Hospitals under Public Health Department of London County
Council used by Inhabitants of Shoreditch—
9 Fever Hospitals (acute) containing 4,634 beds.
2 Fever Hospitals (Convalescent) containing 1,882 beds.
3 River Hospitals (Fever or Small Pox) containing 1,898 beds.
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) 82 beds.
Hospital for Post Encephalitis Lethargica—
Northern, Winchmore Hill, N.21 (part of) 274 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 32,539 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, Herne Bay, Kent (Convalescent
Children) 127 beds.
Contagious Diseases of the Skin and Scalp—
Goldie Leigh Homes, Abbey Wood, S.E. 2 248 beds.
Ophthalmia—
White Oak, Swanley Junction, Kent 364 beds.
Venereal Disease Clinics accessible from Shoreditch—
Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, W.C. 1 (male and female children).
Daily treatment (Sunday excepted) 9 to 10 a.m., Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
and Friday 2 to 4 p.m.
London Hospital, Whitechapel Road, E.l. Gonorrhœa (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 daily at
other times.
Metropolitan Hospital, Kingsland Road, E.8 (male and female). Monday and
Friday 6 to 7 p.m., Wednesday noon to 1 p.m.