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at Ivingsbury, the accommodation at both hospitals
together is sufficient for ordinary years only, and that
it is very questionable if in years of epidemic
prevalence it would prove to be anything short of
being absolutely inadequate, especially in a district
like Willesden with a large child population.
Even now, that is in the busy season of nonepidemic
years, it is only by means of frequent
re-arrangement of the wards, which are set aside for
the accommodation of one disease, and their conversion
as occasion may require into wards for another disease,
and by the temporary addition to the number of beds,
that all the cases can be admitted.
The Local Government Board suggests, as a
standard of accommodation, that the number of beds
provided in infectious hospitals should be at the rate
of one bed for every thousand of the population,
but it is not contended that this would be adequate
provision in the event of an epidemic.
In this hospital the accommodation, excluding 12
beds in a temporary building, amounts to 122 beds,
which, if added to the 32 beds at Kingsbury, brings