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Hospital Buildings.
During the year the Willesden General Hospital gave notice terminating the arrangement
between their Hospital and the Willesden Borough Council whereby cases requiring surgical treatment
for Enlarged Tonsils and Adenoids and Deflected Nasal Septum were admitted to the former Institution
for treatment. The Council subsequently decided that this work should be carried out at
the Municipal Hospital. This entailed the setting aside of a pavilion for the reception and treatment
of these cases, the provision of a modern theatre and anaesthetic room, and the provision of additional
beds to replace those made available for these cases.
It has been arranged to utilise B. pavilion for the purpose. One of the small wards in the
pavilion is being completely renovated and equipped as an up-to-date operating theatre with new
floor, suitable walls and ceiling and additional lighting. An adjacent single-bedded ward is being
similarly dealt with and equipped as an anaesthetic room to communicate directly with the operating
theatre by a new doorway.
A new cubicle pavilion of ten beds will supply the additional accommodation required for other
cases.
Owing to the large increase in the number of articles sent to the laundry for washing from
other Council institutions, it became necessary to supplement the existing laundry machinery by
one 32 inch single roller suction Calender with self-contained electric motor, one hydro-extractor
with self-contained electric motor, one glad-iron and four additional drying horses.
Laboratory.
The bacteriological laboratory was opened for work on the 1st January, 1932. It undertakes
the examination of the routine bacteriological specimens from the district and the Municipal Hospital
In addition a number of specimens are received from the Central Middlesex Hospital and other Institutions.