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GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES
FOR THE AREA.
HOSPITALS:
1. For Infectious Cases.
(a) Usual infectious diseases.
(i) South Harrow Isolation Hospital: Accommodation, 46 beds.
Admits ordinarily cases of scarlet fever and diphtheria.
(ii) Stanmore Isolation Hospital: Accommodation, 26 beds.
Admits ordinarily when necessary cases of scarlet fever
from the South Harrow Hospital.
Cases of other infections are admitted to the hospitals of other
authorities. (See page 47.)
(b) Smallpox.
The district is within the area of the Middlesex Districts Joint
Smallpox Hospital District of which the governing body is the Board,
and is regulated by the Orders 1905-1924. The County Council has
arranged with the London County Council for the admission of smallpox
patients to the River Hospitals.
(c) Typhus.
The County Council has arranged for two isolation hospitals in the
County to be adapted to enable them t® receive cases of typhus, namely,
Hornsey, Finchley and Wood Green Hospital and the Uxbridge Hospital.
2. Tuberculosis.
The following is an extract from a County Council report of July,
1945, on the accommodation for those suffering from tuberculosis:
"The County Council maintains three institutions reserved solely for
pulmonary tuberculosis cases. Two of these, Harefield and Clare Hall,
are large hospitals, and the third, Danesbury, is reserved for so-called
'convalescent' female cases. In addition, certain of the County general
hospitals have wards reserved for cases of pulmonary tuberculosis. The
accommodation available from- these sources at the end of 1943 was as
follows :—
"Harefield County Hospital, 468; Clare Hall County Hospital,
440; Danesbury Convalescent Home, 60; Central Middlesex County
Hospital, 34; North Middlesex County Hospital, 60; Redhill County
Hospital, 84; Staines County Hospital, 56; West Middlesex County
Hospital, 92: Total, 1,294.
"Since the review was commenced it has been decided to use Grims
Dyke to accommodate about 50 male tuberculosis 'convalescents.'
"In addition to beds in its own institutions, the County Council
maintains a number of patients elsewhere; on the 31st March, 1944,
it was 304."