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SECTION B
GENERAL PROVISIONS OF HEALTH SERVICES
1. (i) Laboratory Facilities.
During 1955 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 Food and Drugs Acts are submitted to the Public
Analyst Mr, D.D. Moir, at the Analytical Laboratory,
Southwark Street, S.E.1
(ii) 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.
During the year infectious disease cases were
treated in hospital, but 68 of these were notified from
Kingston Hospital in the first instance and related to
puerperal pyrexiae
To Kingston Hospital 69
Tolworth Isolation Hospital, Surfeiton 11
Claremont Hospital, Surbiton 2
Western Hospital, Fulham. 2
68 Notified from Hospital
(b) Smallpox.
Arrangements are in existence whereby any case of
smallpox or suspected smallpox can be transported by the
London County Council Ambulance Service to special
isolation. (Telephone Whitehall 2177s Waterloo 3311).
(c) General.
The main General Hospital situated in the Borough
available for the district is the Kingston Hospital,
Wolverton Avenue„ Kingston-upon-Thames (Telephone Kingston
5692)„ This is a large comprehensive General Hospital
with a full range of general and special departments.
It has also busy and highly organised Out-Patient
Departments fully supported to meet all surgical,
medical, and psychological emergencies.