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Summary of work performed during the Year:
Number of treatments given where fees were paid 1480
Number of separate premises where treatment
was given 358
Number of dead rodents picked up during or after
treatment:—
Rats 773
Mice 46
Estimated number of rats destroyed 6957
Estimated number of mice destroyed 552
Total number of visits made by operators:—
(a) Treatment 1651
(b) Advice 860
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HENDON ISOLATION HOSPITAL.
In view of the imminent transfer of the Hospital to
another Authority the following will, I believe, be of interest
to the Council.
The first Isolation Hospital was erected in 1899; it was
situated in Hendon Way and the construction was of a temporary
character. Accommodation then consisted of two
wards each of nine beds for the treatment of scarlet fever.
This accommodation was increased later by the addition of a
small observation ward and in 1909 a diphtheria ward was
added containing sixteen beds, and later in 1914 temporary
quarters were erected for the accommodation of the nursing
staff.
This Hospital continued to provide for the isolation of
infectious diseases occurring in the Borough until 1929, when
the present Isolation Hospital was opened. The new Hospital
consisted of sixty beds, but this was gradually increased and