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APPENDIX.
ISOLATION OF SMALL-POX.
The question as to the ability and advisability of the Council
undertaking to provide accommodation for the reception and treatment
in the Dagenham Hospital of cases of small-pox occurring in sanitary
districts outside the County Borough of West Ham, was referred by
the Council to me for consideration and report, and I herewith submit
a memorandum on the subject.
The question, which had been informally mooted some time
since, was recently brought definitely before the Council by written
applications from the following local authorities—Leyton Urban
District Council, East Ham Urban District Council, Romford Urban
District Council, Romford Rural District Council, Ilford Urban
District Council, Woodford Urban District Council, and Barking
Urban District Council, asking the Town Council whether they would
be prepared to enter into agreement to receive and treat small-pox
cases from these localities, and if so upon what terms.
The Hospital to be built at Dagenham as at present planned will
consist of permanent brick structures, including an administrative
block of two storeys large enough to serve a staff capable of treating
44 patients, a one-storey pavilion of two wards each having 10 beds,
an isolation pavilion with four beds, making 24 beds in all, together
with lodge, laundry, and other necessary offices. There is in addition
a Humphry's iron and wood ward for 12 beds, now full of hospital
stores, at Plaistow; but capable of being re-erected at Dagenham.
This would give the Council an immediate supply of 36 beds for the
treatment of small-pox.