[Report 1927] / Monmouthshire County Council.

  • Monmouthshire County Council
Date:
1927
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Credit: [Report 1927] / Monmouthshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Chepstow Joint Isolatioaii Hospital Committee loaned their liospital upon terms, and it gave an accommodation of 20 beds, some of which accommodation was provided by tlie County Council erecting a Nurses Chalet, thereby releasing the user of a ward for the treatment of Small Pox cases. An-angements were also entered Loto with Bedwellty Urban District Council for the user of their Infections Diseases liospital, and as the result of equipment and re-arrangement of facilities by the County Council, an accommodation of 5o beds was provided. Later in the year the Isolation Hospital at Abeidillery was taken over with the cordial approval of the Abertillery Uiban Council, and here aga.in with a little re-ai’rangement and equipment a bed accommodation of 18 was provided. The above accommodation was supplemented from time to time by the kind- ness of the Cardiff City Corporation and the Newport Borough Corporation, who came to the aid of the department by placing as many beds as they posssibly could for the accommodation of the Small Pox cases from the Administrative Counfy. The accommodation provided by these two authorities varied from time to time according to the need for accommodation. It is not too mucb to say that had the County Council not been able to make arrangemenjfsi with the above authorities for the loan and user of their hospitals, the plight of the County Council would have been rather a sO'iry one, and the County Council and the people of the Administrative County are greatly indebted to tliose authorities for the facilities they so readily and handsomely provided. For the more efficient despatch of cases to the Hospitals the County Council bought an up-to-date mo’tor ambulance, and thus, with the motor ambulance of the Bedwellty area, supplemented by the user of those of the City of Cardiff and the Borough of Newport, the department was able to remove to hospital the cases notified with all reasonable speed. Occasionally lapses occurred, but these lapses were unavoidable and could only be eradicated in an ideal State where the frailties of human nature have no chance of operating. The notification attack rate per 1 000 of the population was 5T16. The deatli-rate per 1,0'00 of the population was '006, and this death-rate is calculated upon the incidence of three officially notified deaths, but we have definite information that there is another death not officially recorded. The total number of cases removed to Hospital were 1,339, and they were accommodated as follows:— Cefn (New^jort Coiqwration) ... ••• 75 Cardiff 61 Llanfoist ... ••• ••• ••• ••• 313 Bedwellty ... ••• ••• ••• ••• 406 Chei)stow ... ... ••• ••• ••• 126 The Beeches, Abersychan ••• 342 Abertillery ... ... ••• ••• 15 Ithymney ... ... ••• ••• ••• 1