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Willesden Local Board.
HOSPITAL REPORT, 1893.
Gentlemen,
I beg to present my report of the hospital for
the year.
The accommodation available at the end of the
year consisted of two iron buildings, one being
used for the isolation of scarlet fever and the other,
recently erected, for small pox; for the isolation of
cases of the latter disease, tents were provided in
the earlier part of the year. The space in the block
for scarlet fever consists of two wards, with eight
beds in each; a sitting room, kitchen, bedroom,
and passage between the wards occupy the centre
of the building; there is a bath room, with movable
bath, and water closet at each end, a well-ventilated
passage dividing the latter from the Ward. The
bath-room at the end of the Women's Ward was
obliged to be fitted for the accommodation of the
Assistant Nurse. A detached iron room is used as
a sleeping room for the Ward Maid and Laundry
Maid. There is also a small iron room for Laundry
and a Store room, and another for a Mortuary.
In the earlier part of the year a woman came every
day to do the washing, but the arrangement was
not considered satisfactory, and a Laundry Maid
who lives on the premises was substituted. A
piece of ground 60 feet square was concreted for
the tents, and was afterwards used for the new iron
building. The tents were constructed of double
roofs with openings for ventilation, double walls
and a boarded floor; they were warmed when
necessary by Oil Stoves.