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Emergency Medical Service.
The Hospital has been classified as an A1 Casualty Receiving Hospital under the Emergency
Medical Services Scheme. For this purpose it has been upgraded so as to be in a position to deal
with acute surgical and medical cases, the Government supplying the necessary extra equipment.
It is situated in Sector 5, the parent Hospital of which is the Middlesex Hospital, Mortimer Street, W.
The number of beds has been increased from 200 to 310, and the hospital divided into two
sections, one for casualties and the other for infectious diseases. One pavilion has been reorganised
and contains a reception room for casualties, an immediate treatment room, a resuscitation room and
two operating theatres. It proved impracticable to provide adequate protection for the existing
operating theatres, and two new ones are being constructed in the basement of a two-storied ward,
the floors of which are constructed of concrete. These theatres will be used if and when the circumstances
demand it.
The following staff were originally allocated to the Hospital:—-2 Surgeons, 1 Physician,
1 Anaesthetist, 3 House Officers, 22 Medical Students and 60 Nurses. One Surgeon and the
Medical Students have since been withdrawn, but would have to be replaced should casualties in any
number be admitted for treatment. Apart from 1 Surgeon and the House Officers, all the extra
staff have been accommodated in billets.
The Government have agreed to accept financial responsibility for the treatment of transferred
civilian sick patients, that is, patients who ordinarily would have been admitted to the Middlesex
Hospital, but could not be sent there owing to a proportion of the beds being reserved for casualties.
Seventy-eight such patients have been treated in the Willesden Municipal Hospital, and they may
be classified as follows :—
Appendicitis 11 Haemorrhoids 5
Carcinoma . 9 Thyrotoxicosis 4
Hernia 7 Miscellaneous 37
Tonsils and Adenoids 5 —
Total 78