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SECTION B.
GENERAL PROVISIONS OF HEALTH SERVICES
l. (i) Laboratory Facilities.
Bacteriological examinations are carried out by Dr. D.S.
Murray at the Laboratory, 37, Coombe Road, Kingston, 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, Mr. D.D. Moir, at the
Analytical Laboratory, Southwark Street, S.E.1.
(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.
Thirtynine eases of infectious disease were treated in
hospital during the year but 38 of these had already been notified
from Kingston Hospital and related to puerperal pyrexiae
To Kingston Hospital 39.
(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).