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3. Infectious Disease
Cases of infectious disease from this area are admitted mainly to the
Wandle Valley Isolation Hospital. Use is made occasionally of Cuddington
and Tolworth Isolation Hospitals. Only ten patients were admitted
to the Wandle Valley Hospital during the year from this area and, of this
number, two only were notifiable infectious diseases and were admitted
not because of the severity of the illness but to prevent infection spreading
to a baby in the home.
A further ward was opened at the Wandle Valley Hospital during
the year bringing the total bed complement available now to 160.
The new ward is essentially for pre-convalescent Traumatic and
Orthopaedic patients being referred, generally from St. Helier Hospital.
4. Smallpox. Arrangements for the prompt isolation of any case
of smallpox discovered in the district continued unchanged. Should the
necessity arise, the South-East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board
would provide accommodation at the Long Reach Hospital, Dartford,
where there is an experienced medical and nursing staff accustomed to
handling the treatment of this disease.
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