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ISOLATION.
(1) Accommodation is provided at the Isolation Hospital
for cases of Diphtheria and Scarlet Fever only. The Pavilion
Block, which is used for Scarlet Fever, consistes of two large
general wards and an emergency ward, with a Nurses' dutyroom
and kitchen situated between the large wards. Additional
accommodation is provided by a Berthon Circular Hospital at
the rear of the Pavilion Block, which has proved of service for
convalescent patients. The Diphtheria patients are treated
in the Isolation Block, which consists of two wards with
accommodation for eight children.
Nursing Staff.— The permanent staff at the Isolation
Hospital is as follows: Matron, head nurse, three probationer
nurses, and ward maid. In the Administrative Buildings :
Cook, housemaid, and laundry maid. Lodge : Man and wife
(the man acts as gardener, attends to the boilers, and works
the disinfecting apparatus, etc.).
A motor ambulance, specially constructed for the Council,
is in use for conveying infectious patients to Hospital, which
is a marked improvement on the old arrangement, and greatly
facilitates speedy removals.
The Inspector has charge of the arrangements for removal
of the patients from their homes to the Hospital. One of the
nurses goes with the ambulance for every case, provided with
requisites for any probable emergency which may arise on
the journey.
The Hospital requires considerable extension. We require
provision for Measles and Enteric Fever. During the war, the
gate lodge was converted into Measles wards, now it is occupied
by the Porter, and we have no Measles beds at all. We require
a Measles block of 12 beds. It is only rarely we get Enteric
Fever in the District, but it is essential that every case should
go to Hospital. The general Hospitals now refuse to take in
Enteric; we need an Enteric block of four beds. We have not
enough beds per 1,000 of population for Scarlet Fever. A
second pavilion for convalescent cases is urgently needed.
METHODS OF DISINFECTION.
In all cases the work of disinfection is done at the cost of
the Council, under the supervision of the Sanitary Inspector.