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HOSPITALS.
Smallpox. The Surrey County Isolation Hospital,
Cjandon—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 Wandle 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 at this hospital is 132 beds.
No extensions took place during the year under review.
In 1939, 144 cases were admitted from this district compared
with 194 in the year before. An analysis of the cases
admitted during the year from this and the other constituent
districts of the Board is given in Table VIII.
General and Maternity.
1. The Nelson Hospital for Wimbledon, Merton and
District. The accommodation of this voluntary hospital to
whose funds the Council makes an annual grant is 84 beds.

The following information relating to the hospital's
activities during the year is supplied by the courtesy of the
Secretary:—
(a) General Medical and Surgical Treatment—
Total in-patients admitted during 1939 1,115
Number from Merton and Morden 437
Total number of new out-patients 5,858
Number from Merton and Morden 2,527
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