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Assistance Committee, and who work in association with the
whole-time district medical officers. No municipal arrangements
are made for the nursing of infectious cases in the home. All
such cases who require hospital treatment are removed to the
Isolation Hospital, Plaistow, or if this hospital is full, to the
London Fever Hospital.
Apart from these two nurses the greater part of the homenursing
in the borough is carried out by voluntary associations.
The district nurses of the Plaistow Maternity Hospital take a
large share of this work in the borough generally. The Forest
Gate area is supplied with nurses from the Beachcroft Road,
Leytonstone, branch of the Essex County Nursing Association,
and the Silvertown area is supplied through the Tate Nurses
(Queen's Nurses) Home, Saville Road, Silvertown.
The home nursing of maternity cases is dealt with in a later
section.
Clinics and Treatment centres. Full particulars of
the available facilities will be found in the following sections:
Venereal diseases; tuberculosis; maternity and child welfare;
mental deficiency and mental disorders.
Hospitals. Particulars of the Council's institutions will
be found in the following sections: Hospitals; infectious diseases;
tuberculosis; maternity and child welfare; mental deficiency;
school medical service. In this section some consideration will be
given to the provision of general hospital beds—municipal and
voluntary—and to voluntary hospitals which fulfil special
functions.
Smallpox: Dagenham Smallpox Hospital was built in 1899
for the reception of 300 cases of smallpox, but in 1912 it was taken
over for the treatment of adult cases of pulmonary tuberculosis,
and it is still being used for this purpose. There is accommodation
for 128 cases. Any cases of smallpox occurring in this area are
removed by arrangements with the London County Council to one
of their hospitals.
General voluntary hospitals
(a) Queen Mary's Hospital, Stratford. This is a modern
hospital with complete facilities for the treatment of medical and
surgical cases. There are also children's wards, a dental department,
electro-therapeutic, actino-therapeutic, and out-patient
departments. The total number of beds is 166.
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