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spread of infection to others; and where rooms occupied by consumptive
persons have been evacuated by death or otherwise, a
visit has been paid by one of the sanitary officials, and an offer to
disinfect, free of cost, by the Sanitary Authority has been made
and in most cases carried out.
The provisions of the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations,
1908, should prove of valuable assistance (L) in bringing to
my knowledge the occurrence of Phthisis amongst those seeking
Poor Law medical relief (four cases were thus notified during the
past year; and (2) in conferring upon you the power under certain
conditions of taking all such measures with regard to the
destruction and disinfection of infected articles, and the
cleansing and disinfection of infected premises, as are authorised
in any case of infectious disease.
ISOLATION HOSPITAL.
The Hospital is built on a site of nine acres of land situated
in Tottenhall Road, Palmers Green. It is a fine open and airy
site, admirably adapted for the purpose. Only a portion of the
site is at present occupied by the Hospital premises, the remainder
being let off in allotments. The Hospital premises are entirely
closed by a close.boarded fence, and there is one entrance only,
in Tottenhall Road.
The Hospital was opened in January, 1902, and consists of
(1) an administrative block for the Staff; (2) a ward block;
(3) an isolation block; (4) a laundry block with steam disinfecting
apparatus and mortuary attached ; and (5) an entrance lodge.
The following amounts were sanctioned by the Local Government
Board to be borrowed for the purpose of the Hospital:—
(1) Purchase of land £2,500
(2) Fencing, draining, etc., of site,
and building entrance lodge 1,600
(3) Erecting Hospital Buildings 8,400
(4 Furniture 600
£13,100
The ward block is used entirely for Scarlet Fever cases, and
consists of two wards, one 36ft. by 26ft. and 13ft. in height, for
women and children, and the other 26ft. by 24ft. and i3ft. in
height, for men, with a nurses' duty room between them, arranged
so that the nurse.in.charge can look through a small fixed window
into each ward. The male ward was designed to accommodate
four beds and one cot, and the female ward six beds and one cot.