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and a considerable number of them were vaccinated at the Health
Centre, Windham Road on the following day. Others were vaccinated
by their private doctors. In addition, a number of residents asked
for vaccination at this time.
I am pleased to report that the patient made a good recovery and
that no futher cases occurred in the district.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES—ADMISSIONS TO
HOSPITAL
I am pleased to report that under the new hospital administration
Richmond residents have continued to be admitted to the South Mid'
dlesex Fever Hospital. This excellent hospital now admits cases from
a larger area than formerly with the result that all beds might easily
become filled in time of epidemic. Under these circumstances patients
from Richmond would be admitted to Tolworth Isolation Hospital or
perhaps to a bed in a hospital situated in the L.C.C. area of the South
West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board. In fact, this only
happened on 13 occasions during the year.
Generally patients were promptly admitted, and I would like to
record my appreciation of the helpful attitude of the Medical Superintendent
of the South Middlesex Fever Hospital. His detailed
reports on patients discharged from hospital are most valuable.
LABORATORY WORK
General practitioners send specimens for examination to the
laboratory of the Royal Hospital, Richmond.