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Daily average for the year 1945 27.78
" " " " " 1944 25.8
" " " " "1943 41.14
The time has now arrived for the future of our
Isolation Hospital to be carefully considered.
Our whole outlook on the treatment of infectious
diseases in hospital has "been radically altered during
the past few decades. It is now recognised that the
isolation of cases of acute infectious disease in
hospital does not affect the trend of the Infectious
Sickness Rate in an area to any appreciable extent;
indeed, the term "isolation hospital" has become a
misnomer and should be discarded. Such hospitals exist
for the purpose of treatment, and are to be regarded as
instruments which come into play when the mechanism of
prevention has, to some extent failed.
A survey of this part of Middlesex would appear to
show that available accommodation in the various
Isolation Hospitals in the area has been very moderately
used. This is both uneconomic and unsatisfactory,
especially having regard to the fact that hospital
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