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Section 3. — General Provision of
Health Services in the Area.
Most of the matter which is dealt with in this section is
referred to in detail in other sections of the report, and
references will be found to the pages where the details are
given. The information given is more or less in tabular
form:—
i. Hospitals provided or subsidised by the Local
Authority or by the County Council.
(a) Fever and (b) Small Pox. Practically all cases in
Woolwich requiring hospital treatment for these diseases are
admitted to one of the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums
Board, and most of them go to one or the other of the
following hospitals:—
The Brook, situated in Shooters Hill Road.
The Park, situated in Hither Green.
The South-Eastern, situated in New Cross.
Joyce Green, situated in Dartford.
Detailed information regarding the use made of the
Asylums Board's Hospitals by Woolwich residents is set out
in Table No. 41 in the section dealing with the Prevention
and Control of Infectious Diseases. A small number of
infectious cases are admitted to the London Fever Hospital—
an institution where fever patients are received on payment
either in general wards or in private rooms.
(c) Tuberculosis. The London County Council are
responsible for the institutional treatment of Tuberculosis in
London. They maintain no institution in Woolwich.
Certain statistical information regarding the number of
persons who received institutional treatment for this disease
during the year will be found on page 109.
(d) Maternity. There is one voluntary maternity
hospital in Woolwich, viz., the British Hospital for Mothers
and Babies, which has 42 beds. Detailed information
regarding this institution will be found on page 119.
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