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Section D—GENERAL MATTERS.
CHANGES IN THE STAFF.—In the beginning of the year
Dr. Jervis entered upon his new duties as Assistant Medical Officer
of Health and Assistant School Medical Officer, and his place at the
Borough Hospital was taken by Dr. Jas. Todesco. In July Dr.
W. N. W. Kennedy was appointed an Assistant Medical Office
of Health and Assistant School Medical Officer, and from September
was an active member of the departmental staff. Dr. A. Leitch
became Assistant Resident Medical Officer at the Borough Hospital
in September; Miss Chapman (formerly on half-time) was engaged
as a full-time health visitor, and another health visitor was added
to the staff for school treatment work. The clerical staff was also
increased by one.
C) ) PERATION WITH NAVAL AND MILITARY FORCES.
A large amount of work has been done in this connection.
The forces with which we have been specially concerned during
1914 were the Royal Naval Brigade at the Crystal Palace, which
although situated outside our area is within the area supplied by
the Borough Fever Hospital; the troops stationed along the
railway lines in the town; the troops at the Barracks in Mitcham
Road and billeted in the neighbouring district, specially in the West
Ward, and very considerable bodies of troops passing through the
town and billeted for longer or shorter periods in various districts
The principal directions in which the work in connection with
His Majesty's forces have developed are as follows :—
Infectious Conditions.—The reception in the Fever Hospital
of all cases of notifiable infectious disease occurring amongst
the Naval Brigade or military troops stationed within the area of Croydon
and in some instances in camps in the neighbourhood when no other
Fever Hospital accommodation was available for them. In all cases
the Admiralty or War Office, respectively, are paying £2 per bed per
week for cases treated in the Borough Hospital.
A daily list of cases of infectious disease notified was sent to
the Commanding Officers, or Medical Officers in Charge of Troops
stationed in the Borough, and also to the Royal Naval Division at the
Crystal Palace, and the Commandant of the Croydon Military Hospital.
These officers were also supplied with maps of the Borough to
enable them to observe readily the localities in which infectious disease
was prevalent. Copies of the Local Government Board's weekly summary
of cases of infectious disease occurring in England and Wales have
also been supplied.
In cases where members of His Majesty's Forces on leave have
developed infectious disease, or had been in contact with cases of
infectious disease, the Commanding Officer of the Regiment was notified
by telegram, and the patient or contact detained until free from
infection.