[Report 1970] / Medical Officer of Health, Rochester City and Port.

  • Rochester (Kent, England). City and Port Authority.
Date:
1970
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Credit: [Report 1970] / Medical Officer of Health, Rochester City and Port. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    5. ARRANGEMENTS FOR:- (a) Hospital accommodation for infectious diseases (other than smallpox): HOSPITAL St. Ann's General Hospital, St. Ann's Road, Tottenham, N.15. (Tel:- Stamford Hill 0121). Any local Infectious Disease Hospital (or Emergency Bed Service). (Tel:- Monarch 3000.) Any local Infectious Disease Hospital. (b) Surveillance and follow up of contacts: (i) On Ships - by the Port Health Inspector and (ii) On Shore - by the Public Health Department staff. (c) Cleansing and disinfection of: (i) Ships - by the Port staff. (ii) Persons - by Rochester Health Department. (iii) Clothing etc., - by arrangement with the Chatham Health Department for steam disinfection. VII. SMALLPOX, 1. HOSPITAL TO WHICH SMALLPOX CASES ARE SENT. Long Reach Hospital, Dartford Tel:- Dartford 23231. 2. TRANSPORT OF SMALLPOX CASES TO HOSPITAL. This is provided by the London County Council Ambulance Service. Tel:- Waterloo 3311, Application is made by telephone and written confirmation sent to the County Medical Officer, County Hall, London. 3. CONSULTANTS AVAILABLE. Dr. E.P.O. O'Sullivan) Joyce Green Hospital, Dartford. Tel: Dartford 23231. Dr. C.S.L. Hill ) Dr. E.H. Brown. Hither Green Hospital, Hither Green Lane, S.E. 13. Tel: Hither Green 3481. 4. LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS FACILITIES. Specimens for laboratory diagnosis would be sent to the V irus R eference Laboratory, Colindale Avenue, Colindale, London, N.W. 9. DISEASE Typhus Fever Cholera ) Yellow Fever ) Plague ) 0 thers VIII. VENEREAL DISEASE. Sessions are held at the Special Clinic, 36, New Road, Rochester, on Mondays from 1.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. and on Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and on other days by appointment. Seamen, in general, are by now well aware of the international facilities for the treatment of venereal d isease. In-patient treatment is available at the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich, S.E. 10.