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If you desire to see any of your patients under observation
at the hospital, Dr. Steegmann will be pleased to meet you at any
time, if you will make an appointment.
We are, dear Sir,
Yours faithfully,
J. H. Crocker, Medical Officer of Health,
Town Hall, Richmond.
Visiting Physician, Mogden Isolation Hospital.
E. J. Steegmann, Medical Officer of Health,
Heston & Isleworth Urban District Council,
Town Hall, Hounslow.
Medical Officer in Charge of Dochwell Hospital
Dr
As a result of this the Medical Officer of Health was requested
by the practitioners to see every doubtful case of chicken pox and
other cutaneous diseases which occurred in the Borough. In some
instances, where the nature of the disease was doubtful, the medical
officer telegraphed for the County Medical Officer, Dr. Seaton, who
readily came and gave his valuable opinion.
In every instance the case was removed to the
Isolation Dockwell Small-pox Hospital as soon as possible after
Notification, with the exception of the chifd which
died before the disease had fully developed. Arrangements were
made by the Joint Hospital Committee for a driver to be always on
duty, with a result that the Ambulance could be obtained at any
hour, day or night. The Hospitals and Town Hall being in telephonic
communication, enabled the necessary instructions to be
given without delay.
Upon admission of chicken pox patients to the special wards
or in the event of any case of a doubtful nature being admitted,
vaccination was at once performed by Dr. Steegmann. That no