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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Shoreditch 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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Hospitals under Public Health Department of London County Council used
by Inhabitants of Shoreditch—
9 Fever Hospitals (acute) containing 4,856 beds.
2 Fever Hospitals (Convalescent) containing 1,862 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 81 beds.
Hospital for Venereal Disease—
Sheffield Street Hospital, Kingsway, W.C.2 (Women) 102 beds.
Hospital for Post Encephalitis Lethargica—
Northern, Winchmore Hill, N.21 (part of) 298 beds.
10 Sanatoria and Hospitals for Tuberculous Patients containing
beds as follows: 614 (children), 210 (women), 581 (men),
632 (men and women). In all 2,037 beds.
21 Mental Hospitals containing 33,862 beds.
Children's Hospitals and Homes—
Queen Mary's Hospital for Children, Carshalton, Surrey 1,284 beds.
The Downs Hospital for Children, Sutton, Surrey 360 beds.
St. Anne's Home, Heme Bay, Kent (for convalescent children) 127 beds.
Contagious Diseases of the Skin or Scalp—
Goldie Leigh Hospital, Abbey Wood, S.E.2 248 beds.
Ophthalmia—
White Oak Hospital, 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, and Friday
2 to 4 p.m.
Whitechapel (L.C.C.) Clinic, Turner Street, Mile End, E.l (males, females and
children). Daily treatment between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m.
Metropolitan Hospital, Kingsland Road, E.8 (male and female). Monday and
Friday 6 to 7 p.m., Wednesday noon to 1 p.m.
Royal Free Hospital, Gray's Inn Road, W.C.1 (females and children). Monday to
Friday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 3.45 p.m.
Royal Northern Hospital, Holloway Road, N.7. Males and females: Monday to
Friday, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Females and children, Monday, 2.30 to 4.30 p.m.
University College Hospital, Gower Street, W.C.1. Special (Venereal)—Male:
Monday, Wednesday and Friday 5.30 to 7 p.m., Saturday 1.30 to 3 p.m.
Female: Monday, Thursday and Friday 5.30 to 7 p.m. Daily treatment (Sunday
excepted) 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.