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SECTION III.— GENERAL PROVISION OF
HEALTH SERVICES IN THE AREA.
In this section is set forth, more or less in tabular form,
certain information relating to the Health services of the
Borough. As a matter of convenience reference is made to
other sections of the report where these services are dealt with
in detail.
i. Hospitals Provided or Subsidised by the Local Authority
or by the County Council.
(a) Tuberculosis. The London County Council are responsible
for the institutional treatment of tuberculosis in
London, and they maintain no institution in Woolwich.
Certain statistical information relating to the number of
persons who received institutional treatment for this disease
during the year will be found on page 143.
(b) Maternity. British Hospital for Mothers and Babies.
The Council pay a grant of £1,500 per annum to this hospital
for the provision of beds for maternity cases. Detailed information
regarding this institution will be found on page 158
in the Maternity and Child Welfare Section.
(c) Children. The Council's Home for Ailing Babies,
Eglinton Road, Plumstead. Detailed information regarding
this home will be found on page 157.
(d) Fever and Small Pox. The fever hospital authority is
the Metropolitan Asylums Board, who maintain no hospital
in the Borough. Detailed information regarding the use
made of the Asylums Board's hospitals by Woolwich residents
is set out in Table No. 46. in the section dealing with the
prevention and control of infectious disease.