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Tottenham 1925

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]

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20
NORTH MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL.
Silver Street,
Upper Edmonton, N. 18.
Date
Name
Age
Address
Please bring this patient to the Out-patient Department of this
Hospital on at 9 o'clock.
If any signs of illness of any kind develop in the meantime, keep the
child at home, but if the child is going on in the usual way, on the night
before you come give him/her a dose of castor oil to clear out the bowels,
also a hot bath.
On the morning of the operation, do not give the child the ordinary
breakfast, but instead a thin slice of bread and butter and a cup of weak
tea or Bovril.
At the Out-patient Department ask for the Sister. The child will be
kept until called for by the Ambulance at the end of the afternoon.
If for any reason the child should be unable to go home in the
Ambulance, he/she will be retained in the Hospital for the night and the
School Nurse will be informed.