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Overcrowding became inevitable and with it "Return cases" made
their appearance.
In November our position was serious, and the Hospital Committee
decided to take over "Brookfield" with accommodation for 22 beds.
The situation was thus eased and subsequently the epidemic began
to subside here as elsewhere in London and its "Outer ring."
Whether one may use legitimately the post hoc propter hoc argument
in this connection, I cannot say—but certainly the appropriate time for
isolation hospital extension is not during an epidemic. Isolation
Hospital accommodation should be provided on definite lines, remembering
that no provision, unless on an extravagant scale, can meet
the necessities of an epidemic such as we have experienced.
The Resident Medical Officer has supplied me with the following:—