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HOSPITAL ADMIXISTRATION.
"The District is served by the Enfield and Edmonton Joint
Board's Isolation Hospital, which is situated upon 27 acres of land
at Winchmore Hill, about miles from the centre of the Town.
The buildings consist of :—
An Administration Block.
9 Pavilions.
1 Discharge Block.
Mortuary.
Laundry and Disinfecting Station.
Porter's Lodge.
Engineer's Cottage.
Bungalow.
and contain 163 beds, 12 of which are in a special cubicle block
which has been found to be of great service in the treatment of
cases of doubtful diagnosis, and in the isolation of patients who
are admitted suffering from more than one infectious disease.
The following cases of infectious disease were removed there
from the Enfield District
Scarlet Fever 91
Diphtheria 73
Enteric Fever 2
166
In his Annual Report of the Enfield and Edmonton Joint Isolation
Hospital, 1911-1912, the Physician Superintendent, Dr. Cook,
gave a most interesting and useful dissertation on the use of
Anti-toxin, which I would recommend to the serious perusal of the
medical profession in the District, and I would like to direct special
attention to his statement that "out of a total of 131 cases only 34
were sent in having had a dose of anti-toxin." I think every medical
man practising in the parish of Enfield knows that he can procure
a gratuitous supply of anti-toxin at any hour, either at the Public
Offices; at my house, 175, Enfield Highway; and at the Inspector
of Nuisances' residence, 12, Fyfield Road, Enfield Town; in addition
to which he can always take the precaution of having an
adequate supply in his own house by sending in a request for some
to the Public Health Department at the Public Offices.
I am quite aware that owing to great pressure of work on the
part of the Medical Practitioner, and also—if 1 may say so—the
rapidity with which cases are removed to Hospital on receipt of
the notification, in many instances there is no opportunity to
administer the remedy prior to removal, but I have known of cases
where there was a doubt about the diagnosis, and where valuable