[Report 1945] / School Medical Officer of Health, Bury County Borough.

  • Bury (Greater Manchester, England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1945
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Credit: [Report 1945] / School Medical Officer of Health, Bury County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Nursing in the Home.—Home Nursing- is not provided directly by the Council, but is carried out by the Bury Branch of the Queen’s Institute for Nurses (from the Nurses’ Home, The Orchard, Bury). An arrangement has been entered into whereby, at the request of the Medical Officer of Health, one of the Asso- ciation’s Nurses visits and treats cases of certain infectious diseases. Hospitals, Public and Voluntary. The following is a list of hospitals with which the Local Authority has arrangements :— Name and Situation. Type. No. of Available Beds. Proportion of beds used by persons from Out- side Bury Area. (a) Within the Borough : Florence Nightingale Hospital, Bury. Isolation 96 Approx. 40%. Bury Infirmary, Bury. (Voluntary). General 159 Approx. 50%. County Hospital, Bury. General 747 Approx. 60%. (b) Outside the Borough: Aitken Sanatorium, Hol- combe, near Bury. Tuberculosis Sanatorium. 70 72% by Lancashire County Council Cases. Ainsworth Smallpox Hos- pital, Ainsworth, near Bolton. Smallpox 28 Cases admitted as required. pital, Marple OrSopSic HospTtaf tT Bif'Ph °4hop£edic Hos- Oswestry Hospital Pata ’ ^.B. Sanatorium, Leasowe, and Number of beds for Maternity Cases at Bury Infirmary 15 ” >> >> Ihe County Hospital, Jericho... 44 Man b arlili',n .t0 t*le above’ Pat‘ents from Bury are admitted to fCen T*7!lStltUtl0nS’ princiPally: Manchester Royal Infirmary ** ^id), Manchester a„d Sa.fccd Ski! osp.tal (Skin Cases), and St. Mary’s Hospital (Maternity). JericL0Ca', C0VeTen‘ ACt’ 1929-At the County Hospital, the area as bd^e. a,1<> aVailable ,or the sick inhabitants of
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