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SECTION B,
GENERAL PROVISIONS OF' HEALTH SERVICES
1. (1) 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 and other foods 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,
Sixtyfive cases of infectious disease were treated in
hospital during the year, but 62 of these had already been notified from
Kingston Hospital„ Puerperal pyrexia accounted for 36 and an outbreak
of food poisoning in the hospital was responsible for the remaining 26„
To Kingston Hospital 62
"Tolworth" 3
(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),