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Isolation Hospital, Roman Road.

During the early part of the year the accommodation at the
Hospital was ample, but during the latter part, owing to the
epidemic of Diphtheria, the number of beds was insufficient to
supply the demand for admission.
In October, on visiting three schools I discovered a number
of "contacts "or " carriers," and I felt it my duty to admit them
to prevent the spread of infection. To accommodate so large a
number I could not give them the amount of air space required by
the Local Government Board regulations, viz., 2,000 cubic feet
per patient, and was accused of overcrowding, but had these cases
been kept out it would have been impossible to have kept the
epidemic within bounds. In a great number of cases the patients
could not afford to have a medical man in attendance, and had
they been kept at home we should have had a much larger outbreak
and a greater number of deaths.
24 beds have been used for the treatment of Tuberculosis
patients under the National Insurance Act.