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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, 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.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,
Seventeen cases of infectious disease were treated in hospital
during the year, but 15 of these had already been notified from Kingston
Hospital and related to puerperal pyrexia.
To Kingston Hospital 15
To Tolworth 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).