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In addition to the talks given to mothers by the Health Visitors
at the Ante.Natal and Infant Welfare Centres, eleven lectures were
given during the year by members of the staff of the Public Health
Department to mothers, school children and members of various
societies and associations. Most of these lectures were illustrated
by lantern slides, of which the Department has a library of
approximately 300.
Suitable posters are exhibited at the Infant Welfare Centres
and pamphlets and booklets with regard to health subjects are
distributed by the Public Health Department.
HOSPITALS.
The Hospitals with which the Council has made arrangements
for the admission of patients are:—
(1) Situated Within the Borough—
(a) The Salvation Army Mothers' Hospital, Lower Clapton
Road.—The number of beds provided for the reception of
maternity cases, exclusive of isolation and labour beds, is 88.
(b) St. Joseph's Hospice for the Dying, Mare Street.—
Seventy.five beds are provided at this Institution for the reception
of patients in the last stages of illness.
(2) Situated Outside the Borough—
(a) The City of London Lying.in Hospital, City Road.
The arrangements made with the two maternity hospitals are
described on page 57 of this Report, whilst the use made of St.
Joseph's Hospice for the Dying for the isolation of cases of advanced
tuberculosis is shown on page 130.
ORTHOPAEDIC, RHEUMATISM AND X.RAY CLINIC.
The British Red Cross Society's Clinic at No. 92, Dalston Lane
is equipped with an X.ray department, an ultra.violet ray department
in which there are two mercury vapour lamps, an exercise room
for medical gymnastics, three treatment rooms equipped with
radiant heat baths and apparatus for all kinds of electrical treatment,
and a diathermy department. The radiant heat baths were
renewed in March, 1935, so that the Clinic is now equipped with
up.to.date apparatus.
The staff of the Clinic are fully qualified sisters under the
direction of Sister K. F. Taylor, C.S.M.M.G., M.E., M.G., M.S.R.,
and they are all members of the Chartered Society of Massage and
Medical Gymnastics.