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SECTION Vll-SMALLPOX.
(1) Name of Isolation Hospital to which smallpox cases are sent from the district.
Denton Hospital is situated on the south bank of the River about a mile below Gravesend.
The hospital buildings comprise a small administrative block and nurses' home, three ward blocks
(one a cubicle ward with eight cubicles), a laundry, a disinfection station, a porter's cottage and
a mortuary. Cases can be landed from the ambulance launch at a jetty and be wheeled straight
into the hospital.
In the event of a case or cases of smallpox one of the ward blocks (the smallpox block) could
be opened for the reception and nursing of patients. Alternatively, patients may be removed
to other approved hospitals under the management of the South-East Metropolitan Regional
Hospital Board.
(2) Arrangements for transport of such cases to that hospital by ambulance giving the name
of the Authority responsible for the ambulance and the vaccinal state of the ambulance
crews.
The removal of a case or cases from a vessel to Denton Hospital would be carried out by the
Port Health Authority's Ambulance Launch and that Authority would be responsible for the
vaccinal state of the ambulance crew.
In the case of patients removed to other isolation hospitals the responsible body would be the
South-East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board.
(3) Names of smallpox consultants available.
Dr. W. T. Boul. Dr. J. P. Marsden.
Dr. W. J. Coughlan. Dr. M. T. Mitman.
Dr. H. S. Banks. Dr. J. W. Armstrong.
(4) Facilities for laboratory diagnosis of smallpox.
Facilities are available at the Virus Laboratory of the Central Public Health Laboratory at
Colindale.
SECTION VIII-VENEREAL DISEASES.
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