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Malden and Coombe 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Malden & Coombe]

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Purpose. Name. Situation. Management.
Infectious diseases
e.g., Scarlet Fever,
Diphtheria, Typhoid
and severe or
complicated cases
of Measles and
Whooping Cough.
Tolworth
Isolation
Hospital.
Tolworth,
Surbiton.
Tolworth Joint Hospital
Board (this
district being a constituent
authority).
Smallpox.
Smallpox
Hospital.
Clandon,
Surrey.
Surrey County
Council.
Tuberculosis.
County
Sanatorium.
Milford,
Surrey.
Surrey County
Council.
Venereal diseases.
The
Principal
London
Hospitals.
The Surrey County
Council are responsible
for the operation
of the Venereal
Diseases Regulations
through whom arrangements
are made
for treatment of
cases under the
London and Home
Counties Scheme.
General Medical
and Surgical (including
Chronic
Sick & Maternity).
Mental, etc.
Kingston
County
Hospital.
Kingston-
on-Thames,
Surrey.
Surrey
Council
(Public
County
Assistance
Committee).
Kingston
County
Hospital.
Brookwood
and
Netherne
Mental
Hospitals.
Kingston-
on-Thames,
Surrey.
Brookwood
and
Netherne,
Surrey.
Surrey County
Council.
Surrey County
Council.
Puerperal Fever
and Pyrexia.
Arrangements are made for the hospital treatment
of these diseases by the County Council
generally at the Queen Charlottes Hospital,
Isolation Block, Hammersmith.
General Medical
and Surgical.
Medical practitioners are able, by arrangement,
to obtain admission of general medical and
surgical cases into The Kingston Victoria,
Wimbledon, Nelson and St. Anthony's Hospitals
and most of the large London Hospitals or other
Hospitals in the vicinity.
Maternity and Nursing Homes. Controlled by the County Council.
Maternal Mortality. Enquiries into maternal deaths are conducted
by public health officers of the County
Council.