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The latter arrangement with the Orsett Joint Hospital
Board operates from October 1st, 1919, and in the event of
a case arising in your area please communicate at once with
that Board, whose telephone number is Tilbury 248.
1 am sending you this preliminary .notice so that you
may be aware of the arrangements made tentatively for the
treatment of Smallpox. Full details of the scheme will be
forwarded to you as soon as completed.
Yours faithfully,
W. A. Bullough,
County Medical Officer.
Dr. J. Taylor,
Town Hall, Leyton.
It iis satisfactory to know that in the event of a case of
Smallpox occurring in Leyton there is a hospital to which it can
be sent. But it will be noted that these arrangements are only
tentative, and a fuller and more ambitious scheme is foreshadowed,
to which I am looking forward with much hope. As I have
repeatedly pointed out in former reports, the absence of any
arrangement for the isolation of Smallpox cases is a grave blot on
our sanitary administration. I am glad to be able to report that
no case of Smallpox has been notified during the year.
The following returns from the Vaccination Officer show the
unsatisfactory state of infantile vaccination in Leyton:—