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15
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 Borough of Romford and the
Urban District Councils of Dagenham and Hornchurch.
This Hospital has recently been extended and now
contains 235 beds including 71 cubicles. The new nurses'
home has also been completed. The hospital may be
regarded as satisfactory in every respect and is now
sufficiently large to meet the normal needs of the area
it serves.
Cases of Puerperal Pyrexia, Ophthalmia Neonatorum
and Measles are now admitted to the hospital.
Reference to Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever and other
infectious diseases is made later in the report.
(2) Smallpox.
In 1936 the County Council assumed responsibility
for the hospital treatment of this condition and it has
been arranged that for the greater part of the county,
hospital accommodation will be available at Colchester.
Arrangements have not yet been completed for the
treatment of cases from the County districts within the
Metropolitan area ; it is anticipated that some agreement
will be reached on this matter in the near future. No
case of Smallpox was reported in 1937.