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ISOLATION HOSPITAL.
On account of its vulnerability to missiles and splinters during
air raids the Isolation Hospital was closed on 28th September,
1917.
The buildings being of corrugated iron with only a light
wood framework are not adapted for supporting any superstructure
of a protective character.
Since the closure the large majority of Scarlet Fever and
Diphtheria cases have been treated in their own homes. The
nurses from the hospital visit them constantly, and in a few urgent
cases remain in the homes.
Cases urgently requiring removal, e.g., where the mother's
confinement is imminent, by arrangement with the Metropolitan
Asylum's Board have been admitted to their hospitals. This
arrangement, however, no longer now exists, as the M.A.B.
found the pressure on their accommodation in present circumstances
necessitated the exclusion of cases outside their own area.
A substantially-built house, "Wrentham," therefore has
been rented and temporarily fitted up as a hospital, to accommodate
some twenty cases. The staff still live at the old hospital
and go to and fro to " Wrentham."
Also when an air raid warning is given they take refuge
there. The experiment of treating patients in their own houses,
under the supervision of the Matron and nurses, has worked
exceedingly well and no spread of infection has occurred, in spite
of, in many instances, other children residing in the infected
houses.

Scarlet Fever.
Diphtheria.
under treatment at beginning of year 14 14
Admitted during year 89 63
Discharged during year 79 49
Died during year 1 3