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During the year there was carried out a good deal of
follow up of contacts on leave from places abroad where there
had been Smallpox.
Infectious Disease. The Wandle Valley Hospital, as will
be seen from the appended table, has dealt with 242 cases
from our district.
The problem of staff, both nursing and domestic, referred
to last year has been even more difficult during the present
year, and the shortage of nursing staff, particularly in certain
special hospitals, for example sanatoria for Tuberculosis
patients, has been the chief factor responsible for shortage of
accommodation, even when the actual beds were available.
It will be noticed that from our district 172 cases of
Scarlet Fever were admitted. It may well be that consideration
will have to be given to restriction of the hospitalisation of a
disease which can readily be dealt with at home, so as to enable
more accommodation to be available for diseases which cannot
be dealt with at home.