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Tuberculosis—contd.
Non-Pulmonary (Adults).
St. Luke's Hospital, Lowestoft (both sexes).
Grove Park Hospital, Lee (both sexes).
Children (both sexes).
Queen Mary's Hospital for Children, Carshalton.
Princess Mary's Hospital, Margate.
Millfield, Rustington, Sussex.
Measles.—All the fever hospitals.
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia.—North Western Hospital,
Lawn Road, Hampstead.
Encephalitis Lethargica.—All the fever hospitals. After treatment:
Northern Hospital, Winch more Hill.
Zymotic Enteritis.—All the fever hospitals.
Marasmus.—St. Margaret's, Leighton Road, N.W.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.—St. Margaret's, N.W.
Venereal Diseases.—Sheffield Street Hospital, Kingsway, AV.C.
Rheumatism.—High Wood Hospital for Children, Brentwood, Essex.
The most notable additions in recent years to its hospital services
have been 170 beds (the number of beds available at Carshalton will be
increased to 350) for the treatment of rheumatic children whether in a
pre-rheumatic state or during acute or chronic illness. There are now
available at Winchmore Hill Hospital 56 beds for those cases, admission
being secured on the recommendation of the Medical Officer of Health.
There is likewise provision for acute and chronic cases of poliomyelitis
and encephalitis lethargica in children which has recently been extended
to include adult cases, 50 beds having been set aside at the Northern
Hospital for this purpose.
The Board also deals with cases of non-notifiable infectious diseases
such as measles, whooping cough and mumps, as accommodation permits.
With regard to measles, on occasions when beds are in great demand the
standing arrangement is that cases of measles where home conditions are
unsuitable will be admitted in preference to those of scarlet fever of mild
type and which can suitably be nursed at home.
Accommodation for infectious cases for those who can pay for such
isolation and treatment is available at the London Fever Hospital,
Liverpool Road, N.
All cases of small-pox must be isolated at the Board's hospitals at
Joyce Green and the Orchard, near Dart ford, some 2,000 beds being provided
for the purpose.