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GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES.
The Local Government Act of 1929 has effected the transfer
of the functions of the Boards of Guardians and the Metropolitan
Asylums Board to the London County Council with the purpose
of securing a re-adjustment of the distribution of health services
amongst the Authorities in London to the best possible advantage.
The residents of this Borough are within easy access to many
of the well-equipped and excellently staffed hospitals in the Metropolis,
and so far as hospital statistics are available, it would appear
that the facilities offered at these hospitals are fully utilised by the
people of this area.
Fever.—The isolation hospitals of the London County Council
receive cases of Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria and Membranous Croup,
Enteric, Typhus and Continued Fevers, Relapsing Fever, Anterior
Poliomyelitis, Encephalitis Lethargica, Cerebro-Spinal Fever,
Puerperal Fever, Puerperal Pyrexia., Malaria, Dysentery, Ophthalmia
Neonatorum, and cases of Measles and Whooping Cough.
Smallpox.—The Special Isolation Hospitals of the London
County Council.
Tuberculosis.—The London County Council accept cases for
admission to their hospitals and sanatoria on the recommendation
of the Tuberculosis Officer.