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Your Council pay an annual retaining fee of 30 guineas for the use
of three beds for Enteric patients at any time and for the admission
of further patients up to two per ward at the discretion of the
Hospital Authorities. The maintenance rates have been revised
during the current year to £2 16s. per patient per week.
The Walthamstow Dispensary.
The Dispensary is a Charity founded in 1873, and which, during
1930, gave treatment to 938 cases, who made 3,047 attendances. In
addition, 326 operations for removal of Tonsils and Adenoids were
done for your Education and Maternity and Child Welfare
Committees.
9. Maternity and Nursing Homes.—The Local Supervising
Authority under the Act of 1927 is the County Council, to whom
application has been made by your Council for delegation of the
necessary powers.
Six Homes are registered, the number of beds provided being
27, of which 18 are maternity beds.
10. Maternal Mortality.—Maternal mortality is fully discussed
in the Maternity and Child Welfare section on page 110.
11. Institutional Provision for Unmarried Mothers, Illegitimate
Infants and Homeless Children.—The chief provision
is at the Forest Gate Hospital of the West Ham Public Assistance
Committee. Admission is arranged through the Relieving Officers,
and mothers and infants can, if necessary, be accommodated until
the latter are one year of age.
12. Institutional Provision for Care of Mental Defectives.—
None is provided by your Council.
13. Ambulance Facilities.
(a) For Infectious Cases.—Your Council provide three motor
ambulances, used respectively for Smallpox, Diphtheria and Scarlet
Fever.
(b) For Non-Infectious and Accident Cases.—Your Council provides
no facilities for non-infectious cases.
1. Mr. Kemp, Corps Superintendent of the Walthamstow and
District Corps of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, states that two
ambulances are provided, manned by paid drivers by day and voluntary
drivers by night, and by volunteer nurses and orderlies at all
times. During 1930, 1,729 First Aid cases were treated at the
Ambulance Station in Willow Walk, 81 road accidents were attended
to and 946 cases were removed to Hospital, the total mileage covered
being approximately 15,000.
2. Removal of patients to Whipps Cross Hospital is carried out
by the Hospital's Ambulances.