[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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    ;I:::intcnruicc Allovvaiicc ^'4 5’inanoial asaisoanoo imdo:? I'lCi-ioA^GG/T continued i'or patients sui.forin^ iron pulnionar^' tuberoiilosia. This sch>.rec has done Liuch to allcviato the fiivuicial hardships cx;pGri .nood by patients who have given up worh to undent j.he institutional tin at- ricnt. Subject to their confoiviing to tin.: co'.::r;v'. of treatinont prcscji'ibed by the Tubcrcn.losi s. Ofiiccr^ to patients who have h.ad to cease rcnuncnaatiw esiplojsjnnt iiay be reasonably expected a period of treatment. ti-e al].owanc(uj are ? •• r ^ r j ^ T / j, u. • ein ^ t r-cover their werhing coveani.ty after V'tlO The Standard jviintcnancc Allowances arc issued v;ithout reference to the f:u.iily income, cend iDisoretionary Allo’;//ance's‘' and ''Special i'o.yracnts'' naj'- also bo issued I'or specific piirposos on oroof of need. poultry A: JfLAIlCA SAAVICA. The Count 2' Anbulaiice Service, CounciIs ofiicient hospit als It tio 0 wn^a t much d 11 V_' tren 4^1', A r\ oh.' O-L w f c and in.atci.*n it is a fun da ro. ■ J .i. ^ of hospita is no sep a.i The l>'3 >.j.re D Council, prior to the v/ar, did not operate an T*eld-'0.-. h: riio r- d upon those County District oil hired transport, and as .C' • iJ- nx-1 ’ else o who n-uiuired urrent adnisoion to of the County Scheme for the tin cnarges.' riiese are includea in the general costings or hospital, sanatorimr or nat'^rnity home end the patients’ contribu¬ tion towards the cost of treatment automatically covers the cost of the anbulojicc- journepy. hndGr section 197 of the rublio health Act, 19o6, either the County Council or Gount.y District Council may, if they so desire operate an acAulance service and make the users of the vehicle. As far u therefor against j_ .u -s .* ... . L* u U A. . \ V- ^ es, Vs./u\. c J ‘W — ad'w U” m.>' M Ot’ ■I'K-* 1 . „ .. <.V nv. e c- j. - ^oielit u on. o nc “02; the ly for dealing , sanatoria and increasing nm.ibur of that in many districts the most suii.table pjr'osdsion for a oomprehonsive aribii.lan servioG could be made by the Count'- Council. I Ministry of Health drev; establishment of m of;?: with normal admissions and discharass to maternity homes, but also for dc aling with tim i- road accidents. The Ili-h.star at tliHo tiiic suggi T^a^ County Council Civil Defence Services, since the beginning of the v:ar, had operated a cismlian ambulance service in many pti27ts of. the County Arc-es., ana in a'survey of nine A.Ii.h. areas, 5.904 cases had been transported, the mi.lGa^.-2e involved be inn 72,515, ./il'toi' conferences wiili local aiithorities, the Countj* Oo-imef 1 eonuacnoed a Sar'oice, operated in the main by former Civil Ilsforice vohiclGs, as froro. 1st duly 1945. to scrAX' the noed.-s in the Coiuity Di strict s indi c atcd low: - T a d e a st e r Pair a 1 Vfakc fi c Id Rur al C-oole Borouydi Sglb y Hu ra1 (part) Wortley Rural Hor sf orth Urb an. Dodworth Urb.an Darfiold Urban Hombwoil Urban R»p ',\T, a V! r Urban Riveton hark Rural Don c a st or Rur a1 C orii sb r ough Urb an xdexbor ougli Urban Hoyland Nether Urban Thorno Rural Accordingly, Depots and oub-Dcioots were- ost-folishod cUid operated from 1st Iul.y, 1945 as set out in the following tabic, etfiffed with ambulanicos and sitting case cars which it v/as .honed j.. ^ U O