[Report 1945] / Medical Officer of Health, West Riding of Yorkshire County Council.

  • West Riding of Yorkshire (England). County Council
Date:
1945
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Credit: [Report 1945] / Medical Officer of Health, West Riding of Yorkshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ c..anination at tlie corL-icncGricnt of d.uty, arc follov/cd up by fuj?thcr cxax.iination at aix-xacivbhly intorvala. To cope m. til tho inere a00 of work , conoiclGration has bocn given to additions in the ostablishnents of the Clerk Steward’s office and of the artisan staff of the adjoining County '.Telfarc Institution. Several appointnonts have been aade. Structural Inprovenents. Alterations etc. The external painting of and' thc int crnal paintiiig of tho etc., is in progross . Intcrnal out at two of the Nurses^ Hostel the hospital has been carried out wards, special departments, office decorations have also been carried Ro-^v/iring of the whole hospital to the town supply has boon carried out, and electric clocks an.d bells have been fitted in all the wards. Adaptations have also been made to the Pathological Laborato.ry and Surgeons’’washbasins each ward. X-ray Department, the have been fitted in Items which have been considered and are awaiting execution include the conversion of the Children's Hard into snail cubicles, alterations to the v/ard kitchens, extensions to telephone s^^-stem , provision of an ambulance turning circle and improvements an.d adaptations to the present mortuary. Outbreaks of Infectious Disc cn.o V There have been no outbreaks of infectious disease durinf the year. Ari dit i ona E n u i'Dnc-nt , 'Additional equipment purchased during the year include a j'lobile X-re.y sot and couch, a Hinnitts G-as and Air Apparatus, a Mushin Anaesthetic‘Absorber, an instrument cupboard, Cambridge Electrocardiograph, refrigerator, steam oven, calorimeter and microtome for the laboratory, new bowl sterilisers and an operating cystoscopc and urethroscope. OEI'ISRi.L HO SPIT AI TREATIHNT PROVIDED IH NON-CCHITTY HOSPi'fALS. It is recognised that the three County Hospitals cannot serve in entirety the v/hole of the County Adr:iinistrative Area and patients are admitted to Yolunuary Hospitals and the Plospitals of other Local Authorities, During the financial year 1940-6 tlie County Council made grants amounting to £^9,394 to Voluntary Hospitals under the provisions of the Pub]ic Health Act,1956. In addition, cases have been admitted to Local Authority Hospitals either for specialist services not pre-vided at the County Hospitals or by the location of their residence in the areas of the County ixiconvcniently situated for County Hospital treatment end in proximj.ty to the hospitals of other onthorities. The follo\d.n;g table gives durj.ng the ye ar: - close details of such admissions