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HOSPITALS.
General statement. The institutions owned and controlled
by the County Borough Council are the following:—(1) Whipps
Cross Hospital; (2) Forest Gate Hospital; (3) Central Home;
(4) Forest House; (3) Harold Wood Hospital; (6) Isolation
Hospital, Plaistow; (7) Dagenham Sanatorium; (8) Langdon Hill
Sanatorium; (9) South Ockendon Colony. Of these (1) to (5) are
controlled by the Public Assistance Committee, and a proportion
of the beds are allocated on a User-agreement with the Essex
County Council and the East Ham County Borough Council. The
proportions are 34.00 per cent. for Essex and 16.00 per cent.
for East Ham respectively. Nos. (6) to (8) are controlled by the
Hospitals Committee, and are for the use of West Ham residents
only. No. (9) is controlled by the Committee for the Care of the
Mentally Defective, and a proportion of the beds are allocated for
the use of East Ham residents.
All these institutions are under the administrative control
of the medical officer of health. This section of the report deals
with all these institutions except the isolation hospital, the two
sanatoria, and South Ockendon Colony, which are more completely
dealt with in the sections devoted to infectious diseases,
tuberculosis, and mental deficiency.
A complete statement of the available hospital beds in the
borough is given in Table 1. This table includes the voluntary
hospitals in the borough, since the facilities for treatment can
only be properly considered by taking these institutions into
consideration. It should be understood that large voluntary
hospitals in the County of London, more especially the London
Hospital, Poplar Hospital, Princess Elizabeth of York Hospital,
and the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, also
contribute their quota to available facilities. Further details of
the beds available for West Ham residents are contained in the
general statement on hospitals on page 42.
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