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short period to ask Medical Practitioners, with the consent of parents, to
nurse at home mild eases of Scarlet Fever in which the hone conditions were
satisfactory.
Representations were made to the Ministry of Health asking that
Block 6 should be released from the Emergency Medical Services and be returned
to its original purpose, namely, the reception of infectious diseases. This
was approved and took effect from December. The return of this Block has been
of the greatest value as before the war it had been specially adapted for
barrier nursing, a form of nursing which permits of a selected variety of
infectious diseases being nursed in the sane Ward, thus replacing to some extent
the cubicle accomodation which had been reduced to 6 cubicles as a result of
enemy action. There remained at the end of the year 20 E.M.S. beds in Block 3
available for the reception of air raid casualties.
TOTAL NUMBER OF CASES TREATED.
The total number of patients treated in the Hospital during 1943
(including admissions to the E.M.S. Section) is shown below:-