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The Council's Isolation Hospital, which is rented from Stoke
Newington, is a corrugated iron building built to accommodate 12
Scarlet Fever patients in two wards of 6 beds each. Although it has
done good work in tiding over an emergency it is quite inadequate
for the needs of the district.
The number of Scarlet Fever cases was last year below the
average, and no difficulty arose in dealing with them, but even a
slight increase above the average would cause a serious strain on our
resources.
The Enfield Council has received during the year most of our
Diphtheria patients who required isolation. The arrangement with
Enfield is, however, of a temporary nature, and is liable at any
moment to cease, leaving us without means of isolating Diphtheria.