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Shoreditch 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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HOSPITALS, ETC.
Within the Borough—
St. Matthew's Hospital, Shepherdess Walk, N.l (for chronic sick,
London County Council) 627 beds.
St. Leonard's Hospital, Nuttall Street, N.l (general hospital),
London County Council 649 beds.
Royal Chest Hospital, City Road, E.C.I 85 beds.
Shoreditch Model Welfare Centre, 210, Kingsland Road, E.2 10 cots.
Shoreditch Tuberculosis Dispensary, 145, Great Cambridge
Street, E.2 No beds.
Shoreditch Municipal Dental Hospital, 8, Laburnum Street, E.2 No beds,
(for other Municipal Clinics, see Appendix F)
City of London & East London Dispensary, Wilson Street, E.C.2... No beds.
London County Council, Shoreditch Treatment Centre, 80, Nichols
Square, E.2 No beds.
London County Council, Hoxton Schools Treatment Centre,
Sarah Place, Drysdale Street, N.l No beds.
Near the Boundary of the Borough—
General Hospitals—
Metropolitan Hospital, Kingsland Road, E.8 150 beds.
London Hospital, Mile End, E.l 885 beds.
St. Bartholomew's Hospital, West Smithfield, E.C.I 692 beds.
Mildmay Mission Hospital, Austin Street, E.2 58 beds.
Special Hospitals—
Queen's Hospital for Children, Hackney Road, E.2 204 beds.
City of London Maternity Hospital, City Road, E.C.I 79 beds.
Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital (Moorfields), E.C.I 200 beds.
St. Mark's Hospital for Cancer, Fistula and other Diseases of
Rectum, City Road, E.C.I 72 beds.
London Chest Hospital, Victoria Park, E.2 (previously called
City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Heart and
Lungs) 190 beds.
Hospital for Ophthalmia Neonatorum, St. Margaret's,
Leighton Road, Kentish Town, N.W.5 81 beds.
Venereal Disease Clinics near 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, 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.