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SECTION B
GENERAL PROVISIONS OF HEALTH SERVICES
1. (i) Laboratory Facilities.
Bacteriological examinations are 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
Public Health Laboratory at Epsom is available for consultations
and, if the occasion should arise, for help in the investigation
of any important outbreaks of disease.
Special thanks are due to Dr. D.S. Murray at Kingston
Hospital Laboratory, and Dr. D.M. Stone of the Public Health
Laboratory at Epsom for their assistance in dealing with a
large number of specimens in connection with sonne dysentery.
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 Public 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 directed by the Physician
Superintendent of Kingston Hospital.
During the year 68 cases of infectious disease were
treated in hospital, but 60 of these had been already notified
from Kingston Hospital and related to puerperal pyrexia.
To Kingston Hospital 62
"Tolworth Isolation Hospital, Surbiton. 6
(b) Smallpox.
Arrangements are in being whereby any case of smallpox
or suspected smallpox can be transported by the London County
Council Ambulance Service to special isolation. (Telephone
Whitehall 2177, or 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 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.