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West Ham 1897

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]

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To the North of this is a building forming
The General Offices.
To the right of the gate is
The Waiting and Discharge Block.
Facing the gates, and separated by a wide gravel carriage road, is
The Isolation Pavilion, containing fifteen beds for
doubtful cases.
At the North-east end of the gravelled road to the left of the
entrance is
The Admission Room for Scarlet Fever. The
patient admitted is then passed through a covered way to one of
The four Scarlet-Fever Pavilions. The old
pavilions are to the North-west of the Admission Room, the two new
ones to the East of them.
These are two-storied, one containing 31 beds, one 27 beds.
I do not propose to have any internal communication between the
ground and first floor of any pavilion, but to make a staircase between
the two pavilions opening out of the covered way, and furnished for
a lift for coals, food, trollies, etc.
The Covered Way will be two-storied between the external
ends of the two pavilions, and these will afford airing balconies at
the south end of the pavilions on to which patients' beds can be
wheeled for sun baths.
We now return to the gravelled carriage road.
At the South-east end is placed
The Admission Room for Diphtheria and
Enteric Fever.
From this Admission Room, proceeding East through the covered
way, we come to
The Diphtheria Ward, for twenty-seven patients.
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