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Sunlight Home, Shoeburyness.
Convalescent Home for Mothers and Babies, Birchington
Alexandra Hospital.
Royal Sea Bathing Hospital, Margate.
For Surgical
Tuberculosis.
Stoke Park Colony.
Brentry Colony and other institutions under the M.D.
Acts.
Royal Albert Dock Hospital and various Hospitals under
the V.D. Scheme.
In addition to the above-named residential institutions, there
arc in the Borough some twenty Clinics, including Clinics for
Tuberculosis, for artificial sunlight, for massage, as well as special
schools for crippled children, etc. Formidable though this
list appears, it is incomplete, inasmuch as it does not include
many institutions to which patients are sent intermittently through
the Public Health Department, e.g., London Hospital, Brookfield
Orthopaedic Hospital, St. Margaret's Hospital for the Blind,
Great Ormond Street Hospital, and various Convalescent Homes.
Schemes already passed by the Council, but not yet functioning,
include:—
(1) A colony to be built at Ockendon, Essex, to accommodate
seven hundred and fifty mental defectives of various
grades.
(2) The extension of hospital accommodation at Harold
Wood, Essex, for infectious disease.
(3) The extension of Fyfield Residential Open-air School to
accommodate sixty delicate girls, in addition to the
eighty boys already resident there. (This building is now
complete.)
(4) The erection of two Nursery Schools, one at Abbev
Road and one at Rosetta Road, each School to accommodate
120 children.
(5) The erection of three additional Maternity and Child
Welfare Clinics, including Dental Clinics.
In dealing with such a large and varied number of institutions,
some well-ordered method obviously is essential. At present
cases are admitted to institutions and returns made to me
through the various Sub-Departments, e.g., Tuberculosis, Infectious
Diseases, School Medical and Maternity and Child Welfare.
No arrangement for admissions or periodical returns have hitherto
been in force between the institutions of the Poor Law Guardians
and the Public Health Department, with the inevitable result that
a not inconsiderable amount of overlapping has occurred, inasmuch
as a large percentage of the cases of illness in the Borough
are treated in these Poor Law institutions.
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