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ISOLATION HOSPITAL.
The Wandle Valley Joint Hospital, which is situate at
Beddington Corner, serves the Urban Districts of Beddington
and Wellington, Coulsdon and Purley, Merton and
Morden, and Mitcham.
The Hospital was first opened at the beginning of
March, 1899, when 28 beds were provided, viz., 10 beds for
Scarlet Fever cases, 10 beds for Diphtheria cases, 4 beds
for Typhoid Fever cases, and 4 beds for doubtful cases.
In 1904 a contract was entered into by the Croydon
Rural District Council to considerably extend the accommodation,
and in June, 1905, an additional Scarlet Fever
pavilion for 22 beds was completed.
The hand laundry was converted into a steam laundry,
and an additional dormitory was provided in the administrative
block.
A further enlargement in 1910 included a cubicle block
for 12 patients and also quarters for a resident Medical
Officer.
Further accommodation was provided in 1922 by the
erection of another cubicle block for 16 beds.
The nominal number of beds now available is 78, but
on many occasions a larger number of patients are being
treated.
Since the Hospital was opened 8,825 patients have been
admitted.
The number of patients admitted last year, together
with the number of deaths and the case mortality, is :—