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be for cubicle blocks only, and that the ideal hospital
will contain a very high proportion of beds in cubicles.
The initial costs, and extra nursing' costs will be repaid
in the long1 run by a decrease in the average days stay
per patient, the reduction of complications, morbidity
and deaths.
The new Nurses Home was also completed at the
Hospital during the year.
An arrangement has been in effect for some years,
whereby cases of Typhoid Fever were admitted to L.C.C.
Hospitals, but in future, such cases will be admitted to
Bow Arrow Hospital when accommodation is available.
The arrangement with the L.C.C. will not be
discontinued.
Small pox accommodation has continued to be the
subject of negotiation, and the Kent County Council,
whose duty it is, under the Local Government Act, 1929,
to prepare a scheme, has been held up in its negotiations
with the London County Council. It is still not decided
whether such cases will be sent to a L.C.C. Hospital, or
whether special new provision will be required in Kent.
Cases of Puerperal Pyrexia are admitted t*> the
Queen Charlotte's Hospital (Isolation Block) with the
Authorities of which the Corporation has an agreement.
Council Maternity Homes.
The new Corporation Maternity Home at Lavernock
Road, Bexlevheath, was officially opened on the 22nd
May, 1937, and the first case entered on the 24th May,
1937. The last case was admitted to the old Home at
315, Broadway, Bexleyheath, on the 22nd May, and the
old Home closed on 6th .Tune, 1937.
General Hospitals.