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With this end in view, it has been decided that cases of this
disease may be sent direct to the hospital by the medical man in
attendance.
May I therefore suggest that where called in to see a case of
Diphtheria, which you are of opinion either now requires, or will
ultimately require from any cause, removal to hospital, you will
kindly send by the friends of the patient a note, containing the name,
age, and address of the patient over your signature, either direct to
the hospital at Western Road, or to this Town Hall, which, in the
day.time, is in telephonic communication with the hospital, when an
ambulance will be despatched for the patient in due course 1
Thanking you in anticipation,
I am,
Yours faithfully,
CHARLES SANDERS,
Medical Officer of Health.
Before the hospital was opened, I predicted that it would prove a
great blessing to the Plaistow Ward, and the figures for 1897 appear
to show that the districts around the hospital have already begun to
appreciate its advantages, while the more distant districts remain
either uninformed, or unconvinced.

Recognizing not only the need for additional accommodation for
patients, but also the urgent need for an improvement in the administrative
surroundings, your Committee took steps during the year to
hasten the completion of the hospital scheme which I suggested in
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