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GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES FOR
THE AREA.
Hospitals Provided or Subsidised by the Local Authority
During the Year 1929.
Fever and Smallpox.
There is no fever hospital situated in the Borough. The
Metropolitan Asylums Board was responsible for the provision
of fever hospitals in London.
Tuberculosis.
The London County Council is responsible for the institutional
treatment of tuberculosis in London. They maintain no
institution in Camberwell.
Maternity.
The Borough Council subsidise two wards in St. Giles'
Hospital, Brunswick Square.
Children.
There are no children's hospitals in the area. The nearest
institution, viz., the Belgrave Hospital for Children, is situated
about one mile from the Borough boundary in the neighbouring
Borough of Lambeth.
Other Hospitals.
St. Giles' Hospital and Constance Road Institution, and a
large number" of London General Hospitals within easy access.
Institutional Provision for Unmamed Mothers.
National British Women's Temperance Association "House
of Help," 201, Camberwell Grove, S.E. 5, subsidised by the
Camberwell Borough Council.
Southwark Diocesan Association for Preventive and Rescue
Work, subsidised by the Borough Council for cases boarded out
in approved home§.
Ambulance Services.
Infectious Cases.—The authority responsible for the provision
of institutional treatment of notifiable infectious disease cases in
the Metropolitan area was the Metropolitan Asylums Board,
and the Board's ambulance service was available for the removal
of such cases at any hour of the day or night.
Non-Infectious Cases and Accident Cases.—The ambulance
service of the M.A.B. was also available for the conveyance of
patients not suffering from infectious diseases, but a charge is
made for their removal. Further, the London County Council
has provided a free ambulance service to deal with street accident
cases and persons taken suddenly ill in the street or any public
place.