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Report on the Borough Isolation Hospital.
The work at the Hospital during the past year has been
particularly heavy, the number of patients treated having exceeded
that of any previous year.
The new Ward for Scarlet Fever patients, the Laundry,
Lodge, and Disinfector were declared open for use by the
Chairman of the Public Health Committer on June 17th. These
buildings are proving of the utmost value. During the prevalence
of Scarlet Fever at the latter part of the year the new Ward
enabled many cases to be admitted which otherwise would have
had to remain at home, though even its resources proved
inadequate.
The Disinfector and Laundry machinery are also working in
a satisfactory manner and enable the work to be carried out in a
more efficient way than formerly.
During the year electric light was installed, not only in the
new buildings, but also in the existing Administrative Blocks and
in the Typhoid and Diphtheria Wards. This has proved of the
utmost value, more particularly in the latter Ward, where urgent
operations have often to be performed at night.
Private telephonic communication between the various Wards,
Lodge, Laundry, etc., has also been established.
Stables and Ambulance House have also been erected during
the year on the Hospital site, and were completed and came into
use in December.
The old stables were at Clock House, some distance from the
Hospital, and therefore increased the work of both men and
horses owing to the many journeys necessary between the two
places. The new buildings obviate all this and are also more
commodious and convenient.