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GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES FOR
THE AREA.
Hospitals provided or subsidised by the Local Authority or
by the County Council.
a. (1) Fever.
Rush Green Isolation Hospital is maintained by the Romford
Joint Hospital Board, which consists of representatives of the
Urban District Councils of Dagenham, Hornchurch, and Romford,
and the Rural District Council of Romford.
The accommodation proved more than sufficient to meet the
demands made on it this year in respect of the more usual diseases
admitted so that cases of many other types of disease were sent in.
including, from this area, cases of puerperal infection, erysipelas,
complicated cases of whooping cough and measles, and ophthalmia
neonatorum.
Although the cubicles comprised only 20 per cent. of the
total beds, they had to cope with 33 per cent. of the total admissions,
while a number of cases requiring isolation had to be treated as
barrier patients in the ordinary wards or side wards.
(2) Smallpox.
The agreement which existed between the Joint Hospital
Board and the West Ham Corporation covering the admission
of local cases of Smallpox to Orsett Hospital terminated in the
early part of the year. Since then, the Joint Board has entered
directly into an agreement with the Authorities of the Orsett
Hospital.
b. Tuberculosis.
For the table of hospitals and institutions into which local
cases might, through the Essex County Council, be admitted, see
page 13 of Annual Report, 1931.
The following are the numbers of persons admitted from this
district during the year:—