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GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES FOR
THE AREA.
Hospitals provided or subsidised by the Local Authority or
by the County Council.
a. (1) Fever.
Rush Green Isolation Hospital is maintained by the Romford
Joint Hospital Board, which consists of representatives from the
Urban District Councils of Dagenham. Ilornchurch, and Bomford,
and the Rural District Council of Romford.
The extensions had not advanced during the year sufficiently
to render available any additional beds, with a result that large
numbers of Scarlet Fever patients had again to be nursed in their
homes. The difficulties arising through this were less acute this
year, as many patients were admitted through the Hospital Savings
Association to the London Fever Hospital, Islington.
Of the Scarlet Fever eases, about 55% were treated at home
during the entire course of their illness. Practically all cases of
Diphtheria were removed to hospital, those few cases remaining
at home being of a mild nature and with suitable home circumstances.
Cases of other infections such as Typhoid Fever and Erysipelas
were treated in Oldchurch Hospital.
(2) Smallpox.
The .Joint Hospital Board, with other districts, has an arrangement
with the West, Ham Corporation for the reception of Smallpox
cases at Orsett Hospital.
When there is no available accommodation at this hospital,
cases are admitted, by arrangement with the London County
Council, to Joyce Green Smallpox Hospital.
b. (1) Tuberculosis.
The Essex County Council, as the Tuberculosis Authority,
maintain a number of beds for adults and children of both sexes
at various institutions. (See Annual Report for the year 1928.)
General Medical and Surgical Cases.
Oldchurch Hospital, Romford.—This hospital was the
Poor Law Hospital of the Romford Union. It consists of about
600 beds allocated as:-