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SECTION B
GENERAL PROVISIONS OF HEALTH SERVICES
l. (i) Public Health Officers.
The staff of the Public Health Department is as shown
in the preface to the report, where changes during the year
have been recorded.
Consequent upon the death of Mr. P.D. Harvey mentioned
in the Preface to this Report, Mr. M.E. Powell was promoted to
Chief Clerk from Senior Clerk on l.4.53 Unlike Mr. Harvey's
appointment, which was dual in that he was Administrative
Officer for the Public Health Department of the Royal Borough
of Kingston-upon-Thames and the North Central Division of the
Surrey County Councils, Mr. Powell's appointment relates
solely to the former Authority.
(ii) Laboratory Facilities.
During 1953 bacteriological examinations were carried
out by Dr. D.S. Murray at the Laboratory, 37 Coombe Road, as
part of a pathological service administered by the South West
Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board. In addition, the
Ministry of Health Laboratory at Epsom is available for
consultations and, if an occasion should arise, for help in
the investigation of any important outbreaks of disease,.
There are also occasions on which special use is made
of the services of the Public Analyst in chemical sampling
which may become necessary in the interests of public health.
Bacteriological examinations of milk are undertaken by
the Ministry of Health Laboratory, Epsom, and samples under
the Pood and Drugs Acts are submitted to the Public Analyst
Mr. D.D. Moir, at the Analytical Laboratory, Southwark Street,S.E.1.
(iii) Ambulance Facilities.
The ambulance service is provided by the Surrey County
Council from their control station for Kingston and the
surrounding area at Kingston Hospital, Wolverton Avenue, and
is supported by the Sto John Ambulance Brigade from their
station in Fairfield Car Park.
(iv) Hospitals.
(a) Infectious Diseases.
The South West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board
is responsible for the provision of beds for cases of infectious
disease. Patients are admitted directly to
Tolworth Isolation Hospital, which is under the direction
of the Physician Superintendent of Kingston Hospital.
If on occasions beds are not available at Tolworth
admittance can be arranged with the South Middlesex
Hospital, and in the event of beds not being available
there the removal may be put into the hands of the South
Western Branch of the Emergency Bed Service, which operates
in conjunction with the Local Authorities and Hospital Boards.
During the year 95 infectious disease cases were treated in
hospital, and 80 of these were notified from hospital in the
first instance.