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School Clinic.
The School Clinic, provided by the Penge Council, is
held in specially adapted premises at 17, Oakfield Road,
Penge. The accommodation is as mentioned in previous
reports.
Further particulars appear in the School Medical Officer's
Annual Report.
Tuberculosis Dispensary.
Penge patients are treated at the Kent County Council
Tuberculosis Dispensary, 1, Westbury Road, Penge, on
Wednesdays and Fridays.
Treatment Centres for Venereal Disease.
Patients are treated at the several London hospitals
and the Croydon General Hospital.
Orthopaedic Clinic.
Cases are sent to the Croydon General Hospital.
HOSPITALS.
Infectious Diseases.
Cases are removed to Waddon Isolation Hospital, Croydon,
as before, under an agreement with the County Borough of
Croydon, when adequate isolation cannot be obtained at
home. The hospital authorities provide any beds that may be
required, and the number of diseases that can be treated concurrently
is six, viz.:—
Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever, Enteric or Typhoid Fever,
Cerebro-Spinal Fever, Puerperal Pyrexia and Encephalitis
Lethargica.