When the Grange
Road Health Centre opened in 1936, it provided
infant welfare and anti-natal clinics, rooms
for radiotherapy and diathermy (heat treatment
using high-frequency electrical current), a
foot clinic, and a solarium and dispensary for
sufferers of TB. In 2018,
the front section of the building is still a
health facility being home to the Bermondsey
Health Centre.
In the 1920s there were 5500 cases of TB in
the local area. One of the therapies
offered by the Grange Road Clinic was light
treatment and although the rear section of the
building has been converted into residential
units, you can still see the sign for the
Solarium.
Above the entrance on
Grange Road is a sculpture of a mother and
children by Edgar Allan Howes.
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