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The advantages of an Isolation Hospital would be
still further enhanced by the erection of a Disinfection
Chamber. At present all articles requiring disinfection must
be burnt or taken to Hornsey, where, by the kindness of
the Officials, they are disinfected, provided they are not too busy
on their own special work. This method is necessarily very
unsatisfactory, for it entails a great deal of trouble and
inconvenience, and expense too, and being purely an act
of grace, is liable to cease at any moment.
I wish to emphasise what I have so often stated in my
Reports, namely, the impossibility of getting a patient
suffering from Infectious Disease (except Small Pox) removed
to a Fever Hospital in London. As some members of the
Council have at different times talked vaguely of sending such
cases to the Fever Hospital, I wrote to every Fever Hospital
on the north side of London, inquiring if they would admit
patients from this district. In every case I was met with a
refusal, and was told in effect that we must look after our
own. This was just the kind of answer I had anticipated.
It has been truly said that a Sanitary Authority which
neglects to provide suitable isolation accommodation fails in
one of its principal duties, and, indeed, loses some of its claims
to be considered a Sanitary Authority. I sincerely trust
that the Council will at once find a way of removing such a
reflection upon their office.
There have been very few complaints of late
concerning evil smells from the man-holes and ventilators
of the sewers. This, no doubt, is due to the relief afforded