View report page

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 Boroughs of Dagenham and
Romford and the Urban District Council of 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 it was arranged that cases could be admitted
to the hospital at Colchester ; negotiations were undertaken
for the treatment of cases in the western portion
"I the County at another hospital, but finality on this
point has not yet been reached. No case of Smallpox
was reported in 1938.