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The Local Government Board issued an Order, dated 18th August, 1911,
authorising the use of the hospital as a Sanitorium for phthisical persons.
Dr. Ta'Bois, the Resident Medical Superintendent, informs me that there
are 70 beds in the permanent buildings, and 137 more can be put in the
buildings of wood and corrugated iron. The beds in the permanent building
are supposed to be reserved for cases of small-pox. The 137 beds in the
temporary buildings have been used as a sanitorium for tuberculous cases since
July 20th, 1912, and on August 10th, 1912, the first cases were received from
the Middlesex Insurance Committee, on whose behalf the Public Health
Committee of the County Council had secured certain accommodation [see
"Tubercle"]. The number of tuberculosis cases in the institution on December
31st, 1914, was 125, seven of whom were residents in Edmonton Urban
District.
No cases of small-pox were treated during 1914 from any district.
In addition, my Council still has the administrative block of the Small-pox
Hospital at Clavering's Farm, erected in 1902, where (at the shortest notice)
accommodation of a satisfactory kind to meet an emergency could be arranged
for ten male and six female patients.
In a letter of the 21st October, 1913, the Middlesex Districts Joint Small-pox
Hospital Board inquired whether my Council would be willing to enter into an
arrangement whereby they could have the use of these buildings for the treatment
of small-pox, should emergency arise. In connection therewith a special
meeting of the Sanitary Committee took place at the hospital, who thoroughly
inspected the structure and the equipment. This letter was further considered
by the Sanitary Committee in November, 1913, and recommendations made,
which the Council accepted, that the Joint Board be informed that the
application could not be entertained, but that the Council was willing to
dispose of the beds, bedding, etc., on terms to be arranged.
The following sixteen urban districts are now shareholders in the Joint
Hospital:—
Acton Enfield Hampton Wick Staines
Brentford Feltham Hanwell Tottenham
Chiswick Friern Barnet Harrow Wealdstone
Edmonton Greenford Southgate Wood Green
TRANSPORT ARRANGEMENTS.
The Council at present undertakes the removal to our hospital, free of
charge, in our own ambulance, of all cases of infectious disease which require it.