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SMALL-POX HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATION.
Since January 31st, 1907, the Middlesex Districts Joint Small-pox
Hospital has been in existence at South Mimms. We must rejoice that
although precepts have been made from time to time on the Edmonton
treasury, no patients from the district have been sent there yet with small-pox.
The money (£341 for 1916-17; it was £225 the year before) is a premium for
an advantageous insurance.
Dr. Ta'Bois, the Resident Medical Superintendent, informs me that
there are 70 beds in the permanent buildings, and 143 more can be put in
the buildings of wood and corrugated iron. The beds in the permanent
building are supposed to be reserved for cases of small-pox. The 143 beds
in the temporary buildings have been used as a sanatorium for tuberculous
cases since July 20th, 1912. The number of tuberculosis cases in the institution
on December 31st, 1916, was 118, 11 of whom were residents in Edmonton
Urban District.
No cases of small-pox were treated during 1916 from any district.
Small-pOX. On April 4th the Hospital Board expressed a wish
to take over our Temporary Hospital at Pickett's Lock Lane, and on the
18th the agreement was sealed. On 3rd May the Board took possession. In
November we agreed to allow the old disinfecting shed to be used as a
laundry.
On 27th May a memo. on the diagnosis of small-pox was issued by the
Army Medical Department from the War Office.
The following 18 urban districts are now shareholders in the Joint
Hospital:—
Acton
Brentford
Chiswick
Edmonton
Enfield
Feltham
Friern Baniet
Greenford
Hampton Wick
Hanwell
Harrow
Southgate
Staines
Tottenham
Wealdstone
Wembley
Wood Green
Hendon was added, after the usual Government enquiry, on April 7th.
DISINFECTION.
On the advice of Councillor S. J. Sanders, it was decided, in June,
that the shed for the ambulance and bedding vans be removed from the farm
to the Town Hall yard.