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ISOLATION HOSPITALS.
The Harrow-on-the-Hill Council maintained an isolation
hospital at Rayners Lane, South Harrow and the Hendon Rural
District Council one at Honeypot Lane, Stanmore. Wealdstone cases
not suitable for home treatment were admitted to one of these two
institutions if accommodation were available, failing which patients
were admitted to one of the London County Council Hospitals.
Latterly, Honeypot Lane Hospital has been used only for the admission
of scarlet fever patients, cases of diphtheria being sent to
the Harrow Hospital.
The following are some particulars of these two institutions,
as outlined in the report submitted in October.
Rayners Lane Hospital.
Date of erection—1896.
Site—1½ acres. Capable of extension by taking land from the
adjoining sewage farm.
Water supply—Colne Valley Water Company.
Sewage disposal—Water carriage to sewage farm.
Heating—central heating to the scarlet fever wards, the remainder
being heated by coal fires.
Artificial lighting—gas.
Construction of buildings—all buildings are of brick, except the
diphtheria block which is of hollow brick, timber frame and
cement rendered.
Number of blocks—three.
Number of wards—two for each of the two scarlet fever blocks;
two diphtheria wards, and two single-bed side wards leading
off.
Number of beds on the basis of 144 square feet per patient—
twenty-five.
Accommodation for staff—Administrative block houses the Matron,
four nurses and four maids. (Four nurses sleep elsewhere.)
Porter in porter's cottage.
Laundry—hand.
Disinfecting apparatus—Thresh's Steam Disinfector.
Ambulance—Morris Ambulance for the conveyance of patients and
of bedding.
Medical attendants—the medical practitioners attend their own
patients if they so desire; if not, arrangements are made for
another practitioner to attend.