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SECTION III.—GENERAL PROVISION OF
HEALTH SERVICES IN THE AREA.
It is difficult, in the Metropolis, to give in the limits
of the report, a precis of the health services of the area,
although the mere enumeration of the health services in the
area is quite a simple matter. Such an enumeration, however,
would be no reflex of the use made of health services by the
people of Woolwich. For instance, amongst the municipal
services, cases of infectious disease are removed to hospitals,
all of them outside the Borough, of the Metropolitan Asylums
Board, and cases of tuberculosis requiring special forms of
treatment are sent to hospitals belonging to other authorities.
In the same way many residents requiring hospital treatment
receive it as outdoor or resident patients in various London
general hospitals.
In this section a brief reference is made to many of the
health services, and, where the service is dealt with subsequently
in the report, a reference is given to the pages where
the details are to be found.
i. Hospitals Provided or Subsidised by the Local Authority
or by the County Council.
(a) Fever and (b) Smallpox. These 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. Most of the Woolwich
cases are admitted to the Brook Hospital in Greenwich, the
Park Hospital in Lewisham, or to Joyce Green Hospital
near Dartford. A few go to other hospitals of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board.