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Margate Convalescent Home is now directly under my administration,
and 1 am responsible for the general administration
of Whipps Cross Hospital, The Central Home, and
The Forest Gate Hospital. Periodical returns from
each of these institutions are received in my Department,
and there carefully tabulated.
In addition to the responsibility for the sanitation, the
food supplies, the prevention of disease and the general
well-being of the citizens, this Act has placed upon my
Department the enormous responsibility of seeing that all the sick
and infirm of this Borough are properly provided for, and of
advising the Council as to the best and most expeditious way in
which this can be accomplished—in itself an intricate and a difficult
problem. See page 162, Appendix No. 1.
HOSPITALS.
Infectious Diseases.
(1) The Plaistow Fever Hospital contains 210 beds, originally
allocated for the reception of scarlet fever, diphtheria and
enteric fever cases, with isolation beds for mixed or staff cases.
The slight incidence of enteric fever in recent years has enabled
the Medical Superintendent to receive and treat certain other infectious
cases as well as to admit special cases for teaching purposes,
including severe Measles, Tubercular peritonitis, and Encephalitis
Lethargica. Cases of Puerperal Pyrexia and Puerperal
Fever can now be admitted and treated at this Hospital.
(2) The Grange Convalescent Home consists of a residential
Institution with 7 acres of grounds, together with 01 acres of
land situated at Harold Wood, about 9 miles from the
Borough. It was opened on 22nd February, 1909, for the reception
of scarlet fever convalescents, and is capable of accommodating
00 patients.
Additional accommodation has now been provided for 56 beds,
making the total accommodation 116 beds.
These buildings consist of two blocks, each block containing
two wards, one of 14 beds and one of 12 beds.
The wards are divided bv a duty room, with observation
wards overlooking each ward, and at each side of the duty room is
a single ward containing one bed. Leading off from the centre
of each ward is a sanitary spur.
In addition to the 56 beds there is an Isolation Ward containing
4 beds.
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