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ISOLATION HOSPITAL.
The number of patients treated in the Hospital during the year
has once again reached a, new record. Six hundred and twenty-two
patients were treated (including those patients in Hospital on
January 1st. 1934). this being the first time in the history of the
Hospital that the number has exceeded 600. As before, the bulk of
the patients were admitted from Tottenham, with which Authority
the agreement set out in last year's Annual Report still holds.
The agreement whereby patients from the Friern Barnet Urban
District were admitted to the Isolation Hospital was terminated by
mutual arrangement on September 30th. This agreement was
originally instituted in 1902 and apparently gave satisfaction
throughout its entire existence. The Hospital will, of course, be
available still for Friern Barnet patients should that Authority
desire for any reason to make use of its accommodation, always
provided that such accommodation is available at the time.
A feature of the year's work has been the comparatively large
number of diphtheria cases admitted. As will readily be realised,
the admission of such a large number of diphtheria patients, many
of whom were very acutely ill, meant a definite increase in the work
of the Hospital. As in previous years, the variety of diseases
treated was also numerous, this adding its quota to the nursing and
administrative problems.

Two of the patients admitted from Wood Green and Edmonton
were treated in the Hospital at their own request and as paying
patients. The second case from Edmonton was admitted in error
and transferred to the Edmonton and Enfield Joint Isolation
Hospital so soon as the mistake was discovered. The Middlesex
County Council's case was a member of the staff at the North
Middlesex County Hospital, for whom the County Council accepted
responsibility.
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