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On the nth August, I wrote to the medical practitioners thereon, including
a copy of the Local Government Board memorandum of 1911 with reference
to this disease.
Three cases occurred subsequent to my sending a special report to the
Local Government Board dated August 14th.
I have recently (June, 1914) visited all these cases and I did not find, I
regret to say, a complete recovery in a single one of them. I find that the
cases that had retrieved their powers most were those in which the mothers
had persevered with massage and weekly or fortnightly application of interrupted
electric current in the hospital out-patient departments. Even now I am
unable to discover any common cause of the outbreak.
ENFIELD AND EDMONTON JOINT ISOLATION
HOSPITAL.
This is situated on 27 acres of land in the Enfield District, on its
Winchmore Hill border, and adjoining the large Convalescent Hospital of the
Metropolitan Asylums Board. It consists of an administrative block, nine
blocks of wards, a discharge block, porter's lodge, engineer's cottage, mortuary,
laundry disinfecting station, and a bungalow. Blocks V. and VI. and the
bungalow are constructed of wood and galvanised iron; all the other buildings
are of a permanent character. The bungalow, which was formerly used as
sleeping quarters for the staff, has since the addition of 16 beds to the administrative
block, been used as a store-house and sewing-room. It has been moved
from west of the administrative block to north of the cubicle block. In 1910,
a well-equipped bacteriological laboratory was fitted up in the mortuary building.
A Joint Board, consisting of four members from each Council, has been the
controlling body since January 1st, 1906. It was mutually arranged June, 1907,
that the share of the precept payable by each Council should be, in future, based
on the estimated population, calculated on the number of houses found inhabited
by the Vestry Clerks in May of each year. Besides, a contribution of 30s. per
case admitted is made by the district from which the patient is sent in. The
contribution of Edmonton towards the Hospital for the year ending 31st March,
1914, was ^"4,994 10s. od.