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To the North Middlesex County Hospital 2 cases
,, Hornsey, Finchley and Wood Green
Isolation Hospital 2 ,,
,, Royal Northern Hospital 1 case
Visiting.—The arrangements for visiting patients remain
unaltered and still appear satisfactory.
Laboratory.—Details of the Laboratory work carried out in
connection with the hospital will be found on page 21.
Miscellaneous.—(1) The oldest patient treated in the hospital
during the year was a male, aged 76 years, suffering from erysipelas;
the youngest was a baby aged 9 days suffering from ophthalmia
neonatorum.
(2) One patient from Southgate was admitted by error to the
Enfield and Edmonton Joint Hospital, and another to Coppett's
Road Isolation Hospital. As soon as the errors were discovered,
the patients were transferred to our own hospital.
Two Wood Green patients were similarly admitted in error to
our hospital, being transferred to Coppett's Road Isolation Hospital
as soon as the error became apparent.
(3) I should like to take this opportunity of thanking Miss
Marian T. Durward and all the membeis of the hospital staff for
the excellent work which they carried out during the entire year.
As already remarked, it is difficult to estimate the effects of the
actual nursing upon the patients. We can nevertheless state with
every assurance that this nursing plays an integral part in the
patients' well-being, and that the reputation of any hospital will
always be indissolubly bound up with the standard of the nursing
supplied. We are fortunate in Southgate, and it is for this reason
that I should like to bring the quality of the nursing services
before the Council.
I should also like to thank my Deputy, Dr. A. S. Burns, for
the numerous services which he rendered to the hospital and to
myself during the year.
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