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ISOLATION HOSPITAL.
The Borough Isolation Hospital is in Coppett's Road, at the
extreme north-west end of the Borough. It is a well-built brick
hospital on the pavilion system, and consists of an administration
block with quarters for the Resident Medical Officer, Matron,
Nurses and Maids; an up-to-date laundry, a disinfector, a laboratory,
ambulance shed and stables, a mortuary and five pavilion
wards. Cases are admitted to the hospital not only from the
Borough of Hornsey, but also from the adjoining districts of
Finchley and Wood Green. The hospital has contained as many
as 130 patients.
Diphtheria and scarlet fever are the chief diseases that are
taken into Hospital. Occasionally a case of puerperal fever and
erysipelas is admitted.
Extensions both of the accommodation for patients and of
the quarters for nurses are needed. We especially require some
observation or isolation wards where doubtful cases or those with
mixed infection can be nursed.
Negotiations are in progress between Hornsey, Finchley and
Wood Green with the object of the formation of a Joint Hospital
Committee which would own and administer this Hospital;
and it is hoped that when those negotiations are completed the
necessary extension of the hospital will not be longer delayed.
The Medical Officer of Health has made 164 visits to the
Isolation Hospital during the year, and he is indebted to Dr. J.
B. Prior, the Resident Medical Officer, for the details regarding
the patients admitted to Hospital, which are given in Table G.
at the end of this Report.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
Staff.—For the purposes of working among mothers and
young children the Borough is divided' into three districts, and
a health visitor, who is responsible to the Medical Officer of
Health, is in charge of each district. Her duties are to visit