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Shoreditch 1933

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Royal Free Hospital, Gray's Inn Road, W.C.I (females and children). Daily treatment
between 7 a.m. and 9.30 p.m.
Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital (Moorfields), City Road, E.C.I. Male: Monday
and Friday 5.30 p.m. Female : Wednesday 1.30 p.m.
Royal Northern Hospital, Holloway Road, N.7. Skin—Males and females : Wednesday
and Thursday 1 p.m. Syphilis—Males: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Females and children: Monday 2.30 to 4.30
p.m., Tuesday and Thursday 6 to 8 p.m. Gonorrhoea—Males and females :
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 6 to 8 p.m.
University College Hospital, Gower Street, W.C.L Special (Venereal)—Male:
Monday, Wednesday and Friday 5.30 to 7 p.m., Saturday 1.30 to 3 p.m.
Female : Monday and Friday 5.30 to 7 p.m., Daily treatment (Sunday excepted)
9 a.m. to 10 p.m
AMBULANCE FACILITIES.
Ambulances are provided by the London County Council in accordance
with arrangements, detailed particulars of which will be found in the London
County Council reports, and can be obtained upon application to the London
County Council (Hop. 0262) or to the Public Health Department, 8/14,
Laburnum Street, E.2 (Bis. 4825/4826).
Briefly, the London County Council provides ambulances free of cost
for the conveyance of persons meeting with accidents, parturient women if
the cases are urgent, persons suffering from illness upon medical certificate,
and persons suffering from infectious diseases to the Council's fever hospitals.
In other cases ambulances are supplied at a charge of 10s. if going wholly
within Administrative County of London. Additional charges are made if
there is more than one patient, and there is a special scale of charges for
journeys extending outside London.
HOUSE REFUSE.
The removal of this is under the administrative control of the Borough
Surveyor. It is collected at never longer than weekly intervals; in many
instances it is collected daily, and from a considerable proportion of the
premises in the Borough two or three times a week.
Refuse is removed in horse-drawn and mechanically operated vehicles,
and is burned at the refuse destructor.