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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. The
Ministry of Health Public Health Laboratory at Epsom is available for
consultations and for help in the investigation of any important outbreaks
of disease.
On occasions special use is made of the services of the Public
Analyst in chemical sampling which may become necessary in the interests
of public health.
Samples of milk for bacteriological examinations are submitted
to the Public Health Laboratory, Epsom, and samples under the Food and
Drugs Acts to the Public Analyst, Mr. D.D. Moir, at the Analytical
Laboratory, Southwark Street, S.E.l.
(ii) Hospitals.
(a) Infectious Diseases.
The provision of beds for cases of infectious disease is the
responsibility of the South West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board,
Patients are admitted direct to Tolworth Isolation Hospital, which is
under the direction of the Physician Superintendent of Kingston Hospital,
Ninetytwo cases of infectious disease were treated in hospital
during the year, but 89 of these had already been notified from Kingston
Hospital and related to puerperal pyrexia.
To Kingston Hospital 90
" Tolworth Isolation Hospital 2
(b) Smallpox.
Arrangements exist whereby cases of smallpox or suspected
smallpox can be transported by the London County Council Ambulance Service
to special isolation, (Telephone - Whitehall 2177, or Waterloo 3311).