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salvaged by the Ministry of Food, who arrange for it to be used as
animal food.
ACTON AND WEMBLEY JOINT ISOLATION HOSPITAL.
REPORT 1941.
The total number of patients admitted to the hospital in the
year ending December 31st, 1941, was 287, compared with 338 in
1940 and 333 in 1939.
The admission included 48 patients from Acton, 222 from
Wembley, 16 from Ealing and 1 from Willesden.
Although the majority suffered from Scarlet Fever or Diphtheria,
cases of 11 other infectious diseases were also admitted. Chiefly on
this account, we were unable always to provide for the isolation of
a particular disease, and arrangements had to be made for the treatment
of a few patients in outside hospitals.
Scarlet Fever.
119 cases of Scarlet Fever were admitted and there was no
death. Of this total, 3 cases proved, after examination and due
observation, not to have been suffering from this disease.
5 cases were admitted from houses, where the probable source
of infection was a patient discharged (from hospital) less than 28
days previously. These are, of course, the so-called "return" cases.
No mastoid operation was performed during the year.
Diphtheria.
72 cases were admitted. No less than 36 of these had no
definite clinical signs of the disease on admission, and all the swabs
from the nose and throat were found to be negative.
There were 3 deaths, and in each case the patient had not
been immunised. Two of these cases died less than 36 hours after
admission.