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HOSPITALS PROVIDED OR SUBSIDISED
by the Local Authority or by the County Council.
Fever.
The Isolation Hospital is a combined one for the two adjoining districts,
Enfield and Edmonton, and is situated in Enfield, on the Winchmore Hill
border.
The number of beds is 163, divided into nine blocks, whilst the acreage
is 27.
In addition to scarlet fever, diphtheria and typhoid fever, the Joint
Hospital Committee are prepared to accept cases of erysipelas, ophthalmia
neonatorum and puerperal fever, provided there is the requisite accommodation.
The cost to this Authority for the year ending March 31st, 1930, is estimated
to be £10,150, slightly lower than that for the previous year.
The number of patients admitted during the year was 294, thus making
the average cost per patient £34.
The Hospital is four miles away from the centre of Edmonton, and the
cost of removing patients to the Hospital, bringing them home, and taking
to and from the Hospital visitors to patients on the dangerously-ill list also
adds to the cost.
Smallpox,
Edmonton was one of the twenty-six districts forming the Middlesex
Districts Joint Smallpox Hospital Board.
Under the operation of the Middlesex Districts Joint Smallpox Hospital
Order, dated January 4th, 1929, the above Hospital Board was dissolved, and
its duties and liabilities were transferred to the County Council: this latter
body is now responsible for smallpox cases occurring in the whole of Middlesex
with the exception of the Urban District of Willesden.
Tuberculosis.
The County of Middlesex makes provision for the treatment of tuberculosis,
and the majority of the cases of pulmonary disease are treated at:—
(a) County Council Sanatorium, Harefield.
Accommodation : 129 males, 129 females and 64 children.
(b) County Council Dispensary, Hounslow.
Accommodation : 9 males and 7 females.
(c) Clare Hall Hospital, South Mimms.
Accommodation : 120 males and 66 females.
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