[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Parish].
- Kensington (London, England). Parish. Vestry.
- Date:
- [1897]
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Parish]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![86 Acute Cases (continued)— Beds. South-Western Hospital 370 Fountain Hospital 426 South-Eastern Hospital 431 Brook Hospital 576 3,459 Convalescent Cases— Northern Hospital 955 Gore Farm (built for Small-Pox Convalescents) 752 - 1,707 5,166 [N.B. This total includes the 'emergency beds' placed in various hospitals during the recent pressure for accommodation.] In addition to the above-named Hospitals the Board have in course of erection— The Park Hospital, at Hither Green, for 548 patients The Grove Hospital, at Tooting, for 520 patients 1,068 The Board have also secured a site for a Convalescent Hospital at Carshalton, on which they propose to provide for 700 convalescent fever and diphtheria patients. For Small-Pox Patients the existing accommodation is as follows:— Hospital Ships 300 Gore Farm, Upper Hospital 1000 (At present occupied by Scarlet Fever patients) Gore Farm, Lower Hospital (Wooden buildings) 192 1,492](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/B18239997_0096.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
