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From the above figures it would appear that the cost per
bed for a hospital to be erected in the grounds of the
Willesden Isolation Hospital would be about £500 per bed,
as in connection with certain maternity and other cases, provision
would require to be made for operative interference.
For administrative convenience it would be necessary to
arrange the hospital in three blocks, each of 24 beds, or 72
in all, as follows:—
Cases of pregnancy
Difficult cases of childbirth and aftercomplications
in the mother or child...
1 ward
of
12 beds.
Cases of Diarrhœa and Enteritis
I ward of
12 beds.
1 block
of
24 beds.
Measles and Whooping Cough 1 block of 24 beds.
Cases of Bronchitis and Pneumonia 1 block of 24 beds.
Capital Expenditure.—This hospital, therefore, would
mean an estimated expenditure of approximately £36,000.
Annual Upkeep.—The estimated annual upkeep, including
medical and nursing assistance, may be taken at 30s.
per week per bed, or a total of £5,616.
Premises.
Central Offices.—In connection with the work, it is
necessary that there should be adequate accommodation at
the Central Offices for the Health Department, and I would
therefore advise that steps be taken to acquire a sufficient
site in a central situation in Willesden in order to meet
immediate and future public requirements. As the present
scheme probably only represents a portion of the work which
the Health Department will be called upon to do in future
years, the central site should be one capable of meeting the
full expansion of the work of the department.