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Hospital Administration.
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been attended to by the landlords and repaired as far as the limited
labour resources are available.
Under the House and Town Planning Act one basement
dwelling was condemned as unfit for habitation, and others are
black-listed.
Should a case of Smallpox occur, it would be removed to the
Guildford, Godalming and Woking Joint Hospital Boards' Hospital
at Whitmoor, Surrey.
HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION.
The hospital contains 58 beds, including shelters for
Tuberculosis cases, and is open to receive cases of Scarlet Fever,
Diphtheria, Enteric Fever, Measles, Cerebro-Spinal Fever, Meningitis,
Infective Diarrhoea, Tuberculosis of lungs, and Post-Influenzal
pneumonia.
Considerable difficulty has been experienced in keeping the
hospital going, owing to incomplete and inadequate nursing and
domestic staffs, neither of which has been up to strength the
whole year.
The best women and nurses have been claimed by the War
Office, and the tinge of romance about war nursing is a source of
attraction to some.
Apart from Tuberculosis the demand on the hospital beds has
not been heavy, though the additional nursing of Pneumonia cases
was a great strain on the staff.
The coming year promises better in regard to the nursing
staff.
The garden has been made to yield considerable produce for
the hospital.
A considerable sum of money will have to be spent this year
(1919) on repairs and decorations to the hospital as there are
several years' dilapidations to make good, and reserve stock to
make up. This is the result of keeping expenses down during the
war, an effort not fully appreciated by those who do not
administer.