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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Willesden 1917
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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The following table shews the present uses and arrangement of beds at the Municipal Hospital and the uses and arrangement when B and C Wards, now in course of alteration, are complete.
| Present Arrangements. | Arrangements at 1st April, 1918. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beds | Cots | Uses. | Beds. | Cots. | Baby Cots. | Uses. | |
| H | 12 | 6 | Isolation Ward for typhoid fever, cases of doubtful diagnosis and other diseases. | 14 | 10 | Isolation Ward for typhoid, fever, cerebro spinal fever, and cases of doubtful diagnosis and other diseases. | |
| G | 18 | 2 | Scarlet Fever. | 18 | 10 | Scarlet Fever. | |
| F | 18 | 2 | Scarlet Fever. | 18 | 10 | Scarlet Fever. | |
| E | l6 | 4 | Scarlet Fever. | 16 | 12 | Air Raids. | |
| D | 24 | 4 | Diphtheria. | 24 | 16 | Diphtheria. | |
| C | 16 | 4 | Scarlet Fever. | 36 | Diseases of Children. | ||
| B | l6 | 4 | Isolation Ward for typhoid fever, cases 'jf doubtful diagnosis and other diseases. | 15 | 6 | Cases of Pregnancy and Parturition and Diseases of Women. | |
| W | l6 | Convalescent Scarlet Fever. | 16 | Convalesent Scarlet Fever. | |||
| 136 | 26 | 121 | 94 | 6 | |||
| 162 | 221 | ||||||