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25.
The seriousness of both measles and whooping cough, particularly
in very young children cannot be exaggerated.
Tho advent of the "flying boob" and the "rocket" was attended by
certain consequences. As a result of one incident three patients were
admitted to the E.M.S. Ward, two ultimately recovering but one died on
admission.
Evacuation to reception areas reduced the number of children, with
a consequent lowering of the incidence of infectious diseases in the Borough
and on the 12th August the patients then in the hospital were transferred to
the Sisters' Hospital, St. Albans, which continued to provide isolation
hospital accommodation for the Eorough until the 18th September.
The preliminary Training School, which was held at Clayponds
Hospital, Ealing, and which received student nurses from the Hendon Isolation
Hospital, was so badly damaged by enemy action as to be no longer capable of
being used, and arrangements were, therefore, made for the teaching to be
continued at the Hendon Isolation Hospital for our own students and subsequently
this facility was extended to students from the Willlesden Municipal Hospital.