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SECTION VII
SMALLPOX
1. Name of Isolation Hospital to which smallpox cases are sent from the District.
Long Reach Hospital is situated on the south bank of the River Thames about eight miles
above Gravesend. The hospital consists of 10 ward blocks capable of accommodating 170 patients
but, except in cases of emergency, only three ward blocks (2 of 20 beds and 1, a cubicle ward, of
10 beds, total 50 beds) are kept available for immediate use. The hospital includes residential
quarters for the staff and laundry, although the administration and staffing is carried out from
Joyce Green Hospital, Dartford.
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.
A case or cases of smallpox would be removed from the vessel by this Authority's Ambulance
launch and conveyed ashore via the pontoon at Denton and from thence conveyed by road ambulance
direct to Long Reach Hospital.
The Port Health Authority would be responsible for the vaccinal state of their Ambulance
Launch crews, while the vaccinal state of the Road Ambulance personnel would be the concern
of the ambulance authority, the Greater London Council.
Names of smallpox consultants available.
Dr. W.T.G. Boul, M.B.E. Dr. A. Melvin Ramsey
Dr. H.S. Banks (Surrey) Dr. J.C. Blake (Outer Kent)
Dr. C.F.L. Hill (Bexley, Dr. E.H. Brown
Greenwich and West Kent) Dr. G.D^W McKendrick
Dr. J.D. Kershaw Dr. E. O'Sullivan
4. Facilities for laboratory diagnosis of smallpox
Facilities are available at the Virus Laboratory at the Central Public Health Laboratory,
Colindale.
SECTION VIII
VENEREAL DISEASE
Information as to the location, days and hours of the available facilities for the diagnosis
and treatment of venereal disease among merchant seamen under International arrangements including
in-patient treatment and the steps taken to make these facilities known to seamen:—
NO CHANGE