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HOSPITALS.
Smallpox. The Surrey County Isolation Hospital,
Clandon—accommodation 28 beds.
These premises form the hospital provision for smallpox
for the whole of the administrative County of Surrey, and is
administered as a county service. No cases were admitted
from this district during the year.
Infectious Diseases. The Wandi.e Valley Joint Hospital
situated at Beddington Corner, Mitcham, maintained conjointly
by the following districts :—
Beddington and Wallington Borough;
Coulsdon and Purley Urban;
Merton and Morden Urban;
Mitcham Borough.
The present accommodation is 128 beds. A scheme of
extensions and alterations is in progress at the present time.
These include the provision of:—
One new 30-bed ward;
One new 30-bed ward including 10 cubicles;
Extensions to administrative buildings;
Operating theatre;
New mortuary;
Covered ways between blocks;
Additional carriageways and entrance gates.
It is hoped that this scheme will be completed during the
summer of 1938. The bed accommodation which is now 128
will then be raised to 188.
167 cases were admitted from Merton and Morden during
the year compared with 162 in the year before. An analysis
of the cases admitted from this and the other constituent
districts is given in table IX.
General and Maternity.