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GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH
SERVICES.
HOSPITALS.
Lying within the London area, the residents of the Borough
have ready access to many of the great hospitals and other institutions
of the Metropolis.
The Borough neither provides nor directly subsidises any
hospital, but it pays its quota of the costs of the hospital services
provided by the Metropolitan Asylums Board and the London
County Council.
A. 1. Fever.—The Metropolitan Asylums Board receive
into their hospitals cases of Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever, Enteric Fever,
Cerebro-spinal Fever, Poliomyelitis, Encephalitis Lethargica, and
Ophthalmia Neonatorum. Cases of Whooping Cough, when complicated
and with bad home conditions, are also removed. Since
June, 1927, cases of Measles are received under a policy whereby
mild cases of Scarlet Fever, under good conditions, are nursed at
home. When the accommodation available for cases of Scarlet
Fever and Measles combined is almost filled, the Board require that
the M.O.H. certify cases of Measles that are urgent before admission.
This new provision for the institutional treatment of Measles is of
considerable value, especially for cases occurring in overcrowded
dwellings in the Southern Wards of the Borough.
2. Smallpox.—The Metropolitan Asylums Board Isolation
Hospitals.
B. 1. Tuberculosis.—(a) The London County Council
accept cases at their discretion for admission to their hospitals and
sanatoria, being cases likely to derive permanent benefit from
treatment in such institutions, having regard to the circumstances
of the patient, as well as to his clinical condition. At times the
Council refuse to accept cases for treatment which are deemed