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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 (6) Smallpox. These hospitals in the Metropolis
are under the control of the Metropolitan Asylums
Board. There are no hospitals in Woolwich. Most of the
Woolwich cases are admitted to the Brook Hospital in Greenwich,
the Park Hospital in Lewisham, or to the South-Eastern
Hospital, New Cross. Joyce Green Hospital was closed
during the year for the admission of cases other than smallpox.