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Poor Law Relief.—The following information has been
furnished by the Clerk of the Kingston Union respecting Poor
Law Relief in this District:—
Amount paid in Out-door Relief in 1925 £7,740 3s. 6d.
Average weekly number of persons in
receipt of relief 418.6
Number of persons admitted to the Guardians'
Institution from Wimbledon area 353
General Provision of Health Services in the Area.
(a) Hospitals provided or subsidised by the Local
Authority or by the County Council:—
(1) Tuberculosis—Crooksbury Sanatorium, under
the Surrey County Council.
(2) Maternity—None.
(3) Children—see Hospitals for area (b).
(4) Fevers—Isolation Hospital, Gap Road, Wimbledon
Borough Council, 105 beds.
(5) Small-pox—Cheam Small-pox Hospital, Surrey,
Croydon and Wimbledon Joint Board.
(6) Other—None.
(b) Hospitals available for the area
Wimbledon Hospital, Thurston Road, Copse Hill
(60 beds).
The Nelson Hospital for Wimbledon, Merton and
District, Kingston Road, Merton Rush (52 beds).
Kingston Infirmary, Kingston (500 beds).
Contributions are made to the local hospitals by the
Wimbledon Borough Council in respect to (a)
treatment of employees; (b) treatment of schoolchildren.
(c) Institution for unmanned mothers:— Southwark
Diocesan Maternity Home, 56, Gap Road, Wimbledon.
Ambulance Facilities:—
(a) For infectious cases—two motor ambulances,
Isolation Hospital, Gap Road.
(b) For Non-Infectious cases and Accidents—one
motor ambulance, Fire Station, Queen's Road,
under the Wimbledon Borough Council.
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