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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

West Ham 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]

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Table: Table I.Bed accommodation. Municipal and voluntary hospitals.

Table I.

Bed accommodation. Municipal and voluntary hospitals.

Institution.No. of beds.Remarks.
(1) Whipps Cross Hospital744Including 64 maternity beds, excluding cots in maternity wards
(2) Forest Gate Hospital723
(3) Central Home951
(4) Forest House95Including 20 beds for children convalescing after infectious diseases
(5) Harold Wood Hospital180
(6) Infectious Diseases Hospital, Plaistow210
(7) Dagenham Sanatorium128
(8) Langdon Hill Sanatorium40
(9) South Ockendon Colony134
(10) Queen Mary's Hospital216Including 50 maternity beds
(11) St. Mary's Hospital71
(12) Children's Hospital, Balaam Street36
(13) Albert Dock Hospital47
(14) Plaistow Maternity Hospital60
Total3,635

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Municipal Hospitals and Institutions.
Institutions (1) to (4) in Table I were transferred from the
West Ham Board of Guardians in 1930, under the powers of the
Local Government Act, 1929. In the sense that these hospitals
are still controlled by the Public Assistance Committee and that
the admissions are governed largely by the relieving officers,
appropriation has not yet been carried out. The first hospital on
the list is, however, to all intents and purposes a general hospital,
and there is ample evidence of the increasing use to which these
institutions are being put by the general population.
General summary of buildings and services.
(a) Capital expenditure:—During the year a residence
249