Annual report of the Royal Infirmary, Sunderland : 1934.

  • Sunderland Royal Infirmary.
Date:
1934
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Credit: Annual report of the Royal Infirmary, Sunderland : 1934. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HEATHERDENE CONVALESCENT HOME, HARROGATE. Applications to be made on special forms (obtainable from Secretary's office), which, when completed, must be brought by the patient to the Royal Infirmary any morning at 11-30 a.m. Patients pay their own train fares to and from Harrogate. SURGICAL TUBERCULOSIS. Patients thought to be suffering from Surgical Tuberculosis must, in the first instance, be referred to the T.B Medical Officer for the district in which they reside, who, if he considers necessary, will arrange for their admission. PAYING PATIENTS. (See page 44.) Paying patients are admitted on the recommendation of a Medical Practitioner. ORTHOPAEDIC DEPARTMENT. Paying patients requiring treatment in this Department should attend at 2-15 p.m. any Monday and bring with them a note from their Medical attendant. PATHOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. Facilities for Laboratory examinations are provided. Any form of Pathological examination will be undertaken by arrangement with the Pathologist. AREA. Patients will be admitted from any district if accommodation is available. GENERAL. Patients shall be admitted free. In all cases, however, in which there shall appear to the House Committee ability to repay to the Institution the whole or part of the cost, payment shall be demanded. Accepted cases, for which there is not room, will be sent for by th6 Medical Resident Officers as vacancies occur. Patients who have been recently discharged from this or other hospitals shall not be received unless suffering under some more recent accident or dangerous ailment. The following cases are also considered ineligible for reception as In-patients at this Institution Those who upon examination are deemed incurable or not likely to receive considerable permanent relief. Those suffering from an infectious disease, and those whose complaints are likely to be so tedious of cure as to preclude the admission of more urgent cases. All patients shall be discharged within two months after admission, unless their Physician or Surgeon certify to the Board of Management that there is a probability of their being cured or receiving considerable relief, in which case the Board shall exercise its discretion. VISITING DAYS. Fiiends of In-patients are, subject to the Rules of the Royal Infirmary, allowed to visit between the hours of 2 and 3 O’Clock on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday Afternoons. Children’s Hospital 2 to 3 o’Clock on Sunday Afternoons for adults only. Not more than two visitors are allowed at the same time to each Patient. Only those in possession of Yisiting Tickets are admitted to the Royal Infirmary on ordinary Visiting Days. Children under 14 years of age are not admitted to the Wards without special permission.