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SECTION B.—GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH
SERVICES FOR THE BOROUGH.
Isolation Hospital Accommodation.
Bow Arrow Hospital.
Bexley is the largest single constituent authority of
the Dartford Joint Hospital Committee, which provides
the Isolation Hospital known as Bow Arrow, at
Dartford.
Extensions and improvements at this Hospital are
now almost completed. The cost of the extensions has
been about £70,000, including central heating, furnishing,
and new lodge. The accommodation includes two
cubicle wards and provides 135 beds, and ground has
been acquired to allow space for a growth up to 500
beds.
Future extensions on the lines of providing more
cubicle bed accommodation will provide the Borough
with first class isolation hospital accommodation.
The reduction in cross infection and number of days
stay per patient has already been apparent since the
cubicle blocks were opened, despite the fact that almost
every type of infectious disease has been admitted,
whilst previously only cases of reputed diphtheria and
scarlet fever were accepted.
The new Nurses Home was also completed at the
Hospital during the year.
Other Hospitals.
An arrangement has been in effect for some years,
whereby cases of Typhoid Fever were admitted to L.C.C.
Hospitals, but in future, such cases will be admitted to
Bow Arrow Hospital when accommodation is available.
The arrangement with the L.C.C. has not been
discontinued.
Cases of Puerperal Pyrexia are admitted to the
Queen Charlotte's Hospital (Isolation Block) with the
Authorities of which the Corporation has an agreement.
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