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DISINFECTION AND DISINFLATION- Cards,
supplied to medical practitioners for communicating
with Public Health Department when this service
required re infectious diseases. Clothing, etc.
infected with ringwonn, scabies, etc. or infested
with vermin disinfected or disinfested on request
of medical attendant.
FOOD POISONING- Notifiable to Medical Officer
of Health "on becoming aware or suspecting" that
patient suffering from food poisoning. Special
book of forms of notification available. Specimens
of food, faeces (or rectal swab), blood, urine,
vomitus, etc. may be sent for examination to the
Emergency Public Health Laboratory, Bland Sutton
Institute, Middlesex Hospital, W.l.
HOME HELPS- A panel of women (home helps)
approved by the Borough Council available to assist
women incapacitated during pregnancy and to assist
in the home during the lying-in period, both for
the woman having her baby at home and to the woman
having her baby in hospital for medical or environmental
reasons. Service available to families
free or with assistance according to an economic
circumstances scale.
HOSPITALS- (A) GENERAL - Middlesex County
Council service - Redhill County Hospital and
Central Middlesex Hospital, (b) SPECIAL - for
PUERPERAL PYREXIA, service available at North
Western Hospital, L.C.C.: Ambulance available at
Acton and Wembley Joint Isolation Hospital. For
OPHTHALMIA. NEONATORUM- mother and infant may be
admitted to St. Margaret's L.C.C. Hospital. For
INFANTILE PARALYSIS- the Royal National Orthopaedic
Hospital, Stanmore. For TUBERCULOSIS- Middlesex
County Council Service. Other INFECTIOUS DISEASES
admitted according to available accommodation to
Acton and Wembley Joint Isolation Hospital, or
apply Public Health Department.
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