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HOSPITALS.
Infectious Diseases.—Carshalton is one of the constituent
districts of the Cuddington Joint Hospital Board which provides
isolation hospital accommodation for the following areas:—
Banstead Urban District.
Carshalton Urban District.
Borough of Epsom and Ewell.
Leatherhead Urban District.
Borough of Sutton and Cheam.
The accommodation at Cuddington has recently been extended
to 126 beds. A new ward block of 24 beds and a new cubicle
block of 10 beds were occupied during the year. The auxiliary
isolation hospital at Hook Road, Epsom, providing a further 22
beds, is being retained until 31st March, 1938. New administrative
buildings have been completed since the end of the year.
The cases admitted are chiefly scarlet fever and diphtheria, but
any notifiable disease, except smallpox and puerperal pyrexia,
is admitted. Non-notifiable diseases, such as measles and whooping
cough, are admitted in exceptional circumstances. The information
contained in Table 10, supplied by the Clerk to the Board, shows
the number of cases admitted from each district during the year.
The number admitted from Carshalton was 350 compared with 292
in the year before.
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