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Although Denton Hospital in now under the management of the South-East
Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, arrangements have been made for the
Disinfecting Station, which contains a Washington Lyons Steam Disinfector,
to be available for the disinfection of clothing, bedding etc.
(c) Premises for the temporary accommodation of persons for whom such accommodation
is required for the purposes of the Regulations.
No special provision on a large scale has been necessary, but if such
necessity did arise the ship would be detained until temporary accommodation
ashore had been found.
(d) Hospital accommodation available for Plague, Cholera, Yellow Fever, Smallpox
and other infectious diseases.
In the event of a major infectious disease arriving in the Port, the patient
or patients would be removed from the vessel to Denton Hospital pending arrangements
for the transference of such cases to the appropriate hospital under the management
of the South-East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board.
DENTON HOSPITAL.
Under the National Health Service Act 1946 the Authority's Isolation Hospital,
used solely for cases of infectious disease found on ships and among crews in the
precincts of the port, was transferred to the State on July 5th, 1948 and fell, for
administrative purposes, into the Seamen's Group of hospitals attached to the
South-East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board.
The Port Health Authority is therefore free of all financial and administrative
obligations in regard to the hospital but it continues, by arrangement with the
Board, to provide the medical supervision and treatment.
Continuity of service is thus assured. The Boarding Medical Officer on duty
can admit without discussion or delay, any case or suspected case of infectious
disease, secure the necessary isolation and provide immediate treatment. While your
Medical Officer is in administrative charge of the medical services at the hospital,
your Deputy Medical Officer is in local charge.
(e) Ambulance Transport -
The launch "Howard Deighton" used by the Medical Officers as a boarding launcl
is fitted with an ambulance room on deck with accommodation for four stretche:
cases or eight walking cases.
The launch "Alfred Roach" normally used as a Sanitary Inspectors' duty
launch was designed so as to relieve the "Howard Deighton" should occasion
arise. In this connection the vessel was constructed so that the saloon
could be rapidly converted into a sick-=bay capable of carrying three
stretcher cases while the cockpit has a sufficiently large open space to
receive a stretcher and deep enough to protect the occupants from storm
water. It is capable of accommodating eight sitting cases.
The middle river launch the "Alfred Robertson" has a fairly spacious after
cabin in which a stretcher case can be carried.
(f) Supervision of contacts.
Those persons intending to leave a ship on which there has been a case
or cases of a major infectious disease, must give their names and addresses
before leaving and this is done by issuing such persons with a specially
prepared double post-card, on one half of which he gives full details of his
name and the address to which he is proceeding immediately on disembarkation.
These particulars, together with an appropriate note of the circumstances,
are then forwarded to the Medical Officer of Health of the district in
which the contact's address is situated. The other half he is asked to keep
and use only should he change his address during a specifiad period. This
half of the card is on the "Business Reply Card'' System so that the person
concerned does not have to stamp it.
Arrangements for the Bacteriological or Pathological Examination of Rats.
Arrangements made for other Bacteriological and Pathological Examinations.
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