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SECTION III.—GENERAL PROVISION OF
HEALTH SERVICES IN THE AREA.
It is laid down by the Ministry of Health that, in Annual
Reports for 1927, there shall appear a statement regarding
the general provision of health services in the area. In the
case of a metropolitan borough, such a statement must of
necessity be incomplete because many of the inhabitants no
doubt seek medical assistance from institutions outside the
area, and many of the services which have their origin in the
work of the Health Department pass from that to general
county services. Most of the matter which is dealt with
here will be referred to in detail in succeeding sections of the
report, and so references are given to the pages where the
details are to be found. The information given here is more
or less in precis form.
i. Hospitals provided or subsidised by the Local Authority
or by the County Council.
(a) Fever and (b) Smallpox. Fever hospitals in the
metropolis are under the control of the Metropolitan Asylums
Board and, although there are no hospitals in Woolwich,
there are several within easy reach. In actual fact, most of
the Woolwich cases are admitted to the Brook Hospital in
Greenwich, the Park Hospital in Lewisham, or Joyce Green
Hospital, near Dartford.
Detailed information regarding the use made of the
Asylums Board's Hospitals by Woolwich residents is set out
in Table No. 44. 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 or private wards.