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Hospitals Provided or Subsidised by the Local Authority.
(1) Tuberculosis. Nil.
(2) Maternity. British Hospital for Mothers and Babies,
Samuel Street, Woolwich (40 beds). In March, 1922, the
new buildings of the British Hospital for Mothers and Babies
were opened. The new Hospital is in Samuel Street and
sufficient accommodation (including isolation wards) is
available for 40 indoor cases. The old Hospital in Wood
Street, which could only accommodate 14 indoor cases, has
been retained as an ante-natal clinic.
The Borough Council have entered into an agreement
whereby sufficient accommodation for 144 confinements per
annum is reserved at a cost of £1,500 per annum. This
agreement only operated from the 1st June, 1922, but by
the end of the year 71 cases had been admitted. Each
patient admitted is required to pay fees according to the
earnings of her husband. The amount received thus by the
Council during the year was £213 1s. Od. The amount paid
to the Hospital was £875, making the net cost, £661 19s. 0d.,
fifty per cent, of which is recoverable from the Ministry of
Health.
With regard to the general working of the Hospital, I am
informed by the Secretary, Miss Gregory, that the number of
cases (including Borough Council patients) admitted during
the year was 431; that the number of births was 431, and
that the number of outdoor cases was 243. The attendances
at the ante-natal and child welfare clinics associated with
the hospital were 869 mothers and 220 infants.
(3) Children. Home for Ailing Babies, Eglinton Road,
Plumstead. Provided by the Woolwich Borough Council