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SECTION B
GENERAL PROVISIONS OF HEALTH SERVICES
(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 examination are submitted
to the Public Health Laboratory, Epsom, and samples under the
Food and Drugs Acts to the Public Analyst, Mrc D0D0 Moir, at the
Analytical Laboratory, Southwark Street, S.E.I.
(ii) Hospitals
(a) Infectious Diseases,
The provision of beds for eases 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 ef the Pisysician Superintendent of
Kingston Hospital,
Ninetythree oases of infectious disease were treated is
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,3
(b) Smallpox,
Arrangements exist whereby oases of smallpox or suspected
smallpox can be transported by the London County Council Ambulance
Service special isolation, (Telephone - Whitehall 2177, or Waterloo
3311).