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Tuberculosis Dispensary
Balaam Street, Plaistow, E13 (see pages 115118)
Maternity and Child Welfare Clinics
See page 55, Maternity and Child Welfare Section
Hospitals
Infectious Diseases
(1) Plaistow Fever Hospital has available 210 beds for the
treatment of cases of scarlet fever, diphtheria, enteric fever,
severe cases of measles, or whooping cough, pneumonia, tubercular
peritonitis and encephalitis lethargica; also cases of puerperal
pyrexia and puerperal fever, are treated at this hospital
There are in addition isolation beds for mixed cases The
number of beds allocated to any particular complaint is varied
from time to time in accordance with the demand owing to any
specific epidemic
(2) The Children's Hospital, Harold Wood, has accommodation
for 200 cases This accommodation is still being used by
the Public Assistance Committee for the treatment of chronic sick
adult cases, with the exception of 20 beds reserved for children
convalescing from diphtheria
Smallpox
(3) Dagenham Smallpox Hospital, which was originally
built for 300 cases of smallpox, is still being used for the treatment
of 128 adult cases of pulmonary tuberculosis
Arrangements are still in force with the London County
Council for the removal, in the event of an outbreak, of all cases
of smallpox occurring within this area
Tuberculosis
Dagenham Hospital and Sanatorium
(4) This institution is being used for the treatment of 128
adult cases of pulmonary tuberculosis (See also pages 119121)
Langdon Hills Sanatorium for Children
(5) This institution has accommodation for 40 children suffering
from pulmonary tuberculosis (See pages 122123)
Surgical Tuberculosis
Cases of surgical tuberculosis are treated at the Alexandra
Hospital, Swanley, Kent; Sir William Treloar's Hospital, Alton;
and at various voluntary hospitals
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