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110 beds for Scarlet Fever, 6.3 for Diphtheria, 22 for
Enteric Fever, and 15 isolation beds for Mixed or Staff
cases.
(2) Dagenham Small pox Hospital, situate about 9 miles from
the Borough, occupying a site of 6½ acres, enclosed
within a farm of 119 acres, owned and cultivated by
the Council, was opened in 1899. It consists of permanent
buildings capable of accommodating 50 patients
with the administrative staff required for their care,
together with temporary iron buildings sufficient to
treat 300 cases. Under agreement, eight other Sanitary
Authorities contribute to the establishment and
maintenance of this Hospital, in consideration of West
Ham undertaking to receive and treat all the Small-pox
cases sent to the Hospital by those Authorities. This
Hospital is now being used as a temporary Sanatorium.
(3) The Grange Convalescent Home is situate about 9½ miles
from the Borough at Harold Wood, Essex, in which
the accommodation is ample for 40 children. This
Home consists of a residential mansion with outbuildings
and 7 acres of ground, together with
61½ acres of pasture land, and has required considerable
alterations and additions to render it fit for its
present use. The Home was opened for the reception
of patients on 22nd February, 1909.
In connection with the Dagenham Hospital is a building containing
an Equifex steam disinfector for Hospital use, while attached to
the Plaistow Fever Hospital is a large Washington-Lyons disinfector,
so arranged as to serve the purposes of a public disinfecting station
for the treatment of bedding, &c., of infectious cases occurring in the
Borough on removal to hospital or on recovery at home.