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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 90.
(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 Maternity Hospital, City Road.
The arrangements made with the two maternity hospitals are
described on page 62 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 157.
INSULIN TREATMENT OF DIABETES.
During the year under review the Ministry of Health agreed
to the extension, for a further period of twelve months, of the
arrangements made under Section 77 of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891, for the provision of insulin for the treatment of poor
persons suffering from diabetes.
Under the arrangements made by the Council, applications for
the supply of insulin without cost to the patients are submitted to
the Public Health Committee upon receipt of a recommendation
from a physician of any hospital.
The cost of the insulin is Is. Od. per 100 units.
At the end of the year three patients were being treated at the
expense of the Council.