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commence building a new ante-natal clinic, which will be
opened late in 1929. At the Hospital is a school for the
higher training of mid wives. From the birth returns it would
appear that approximately 76 per cent. of the admissions are
Woolwich cases. Detailed information regarding this institution
will be found on page 170.
(e) Children. There is no special hospital for children
in the Borough, but there is a children's ward in the War
Memorial Hospital.
(f) Others. The Woolwich War Memorial Hospital, which
was formally opened in November, 1927, admitted its first
patient on the 5th March, 1928. It is a general hospital
which has, in addition, a small maternity section and an
X-ray and electro-therapeutic department. It receives private
patients. Seventy-two beds are provided in the general
wards, 24 beds in cubicles in the general wards, and 8 beds
in the private wards. In the maternity section there are
7 beds. Its total capacity is therefore 111 beds. The Council
have been keenly interested in the hospital and have shown
much practical sympathy in its construction, contributing
in money and by labour, and by service of certain of its members
on the original Hospital Committee. In detail the
contributions of the Council have been as follows, the dates
being those of the appropriate resolutions :—
1921-22.—Contribution of £3,000 to general building fund.
1923.—Several applications were made by the Council to
the Unemployment Grants Committee for approval of
the work of levelling the site, etc., to rank as part of
the Council's scheme for the relief of unemployment.
Sixty per cent. of the cost of this ranked for grant,
but the Council's contribution was limited to £6,000.
The additional amount contributed by the Unemployment
Grants Committee was £13,412.