[Report 1929] / Medical Officer of Health, Darlington County Borough.

  • Darlington (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1929
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Credit: [Report 1929] / Medical Officer of Health, Darlington County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Darlington Queen’s Nurses’ Association.—Home nursing is provided by the Queen’s Nurses’ Association, who are supported by voluntary subscriptions and by contributions from the Durham County Council and County Borough Councils and Friendly Societies. By agreement with the Borough Council they under- take the home nursing of expectant mothers, maternity cases, cases of Puerperal infection. Measles, Whooping Cough, Epidemic Diarrhoea and Ophthalmia Neonatorum, at a retaining fee of £10, plus Is. 4d. a visit, with a minimum total of £30 per annum. In Se])tenibcr 1920, the Council agreed in connection with their joint scheme with the Durham County Council for the treat- ment of Tuberculosis, to pay the sum of ten-pence per visit for tuberculous cases with o})en wounds nursed at home at the request of the Tubercidosis Medical Officer. Midwifery cases are undertaken, but only at the expense* of the Local Authority in so far as complications lead to ad-- ditional attendances. General Hospital, Darlington.—This is almost purely a Surgical Hos})ital at ])rescnt, as the accommodation is not sufficientt for all the medical and surgical needs of the town. A new Hospital is under construction on a neighbouring site of 17 acres. It is^ suggested that this new War Memorial Hospital should be builtt as s]3eedily as possible, if necessary with the present promised municipal help of £47,000 or more, with a relevant measure of corporation control. The increasing demands made on the aceommodation are revealed by the figures for the past eight years :— In-patients Ont-patients’ attendances 1921 1,066 40,421 1922 .... .... 1,346 .... 43,027 1923 .... .... 1,519 .... 46,134 1921 .... 1,563 .... 45,638 1925 .... 1,600 46,428 1926 .... .. . 1,746 .... 48,679 1927 .... .... 2,155 1928 .... .... 2,290 .... 59,262 1929 .... • • • a .... 2,321 .... 58,906