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Under the Finance Act, 1911, the Government set aside a sum not
exceeding £34,025, towards the capital cost of the Middlesex scheme ; payments
are being made out of this fund from time to time as capital expenditure is laid
out.
DISPENSARIES.
Edmonton, Tottenham and Enfield form No. 1 area of the 5 into which
Middlesex is divided. The head dispensary of the area was opened at 56,
Silver Street on 22nd October, 1913 ; there is a branch at Tynemouth House,
Tottenham, but none in Enfield. A second nurse has been added to the staff
of Dr. Cogill, the Tuberculosis Officer; his assistant, Dr. Trevor Davies, is on
war service.
SANATORIA AND HOSPITALS.
In July, 1 1913, the County Public Health Committee decided to secure a
site whereon to build a sanatorium.
The negotiations to erect a sanatorium at Eastwood in Essex failed, because
the Local Government Board on 30th July, 1914, refused their approval; but
by the end of March, 1915, the County Council had secured a site of 221 acres
for £63,300 at Mayland, Essex. However, although the plans providing for 314
beds were passed by the Board, the County Council decided in January, 1915,
for financial reasons, not to apply for a loan at present. Probably, like many
other municipal schemes, it is deferred until the Great War ends. Meanwhile,
80 beds are in use at Clare Hall Smallpox Hospital, 12 at Fairlight Sanatorium,
Hastings, and 7 at Whitmead, Tilford. A supply of further accommodation at
Clare Hall has been delayed owing to a difficulty of providing for sporadic
cases of smallpox and the immediate clearance of the tubercular patients, if
necessary.
At Brompton Hospital, the Royal Seabathing Infirmary of Margate, and
many other places, some 46 male and 14 female beds are filled, as occasion
offers.
HOSPITALS. For advanced cases 50 beds are reserved at the Northern
Hospital at Winchmore Hill, and 30 female beds at St. George's Home,
Chelsea, both through the Metropolitan Asylums Board, and 20 beds at
Willesden Isolation Hospital. The dispensary at Hounslow (Area No. 5) has
17 beds for observation cases ; Edmonton patients have been notified as residing
there in 1915.
At the date of the Annual Report of the County Public Health Committee, 31st
March, 1915, there were on the waiting list for sanatorium treatment 37 males
and 28 females, and for hospital beds 56 males and n females.