[Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, County Palatine of Lancaster / Lancashire County Council.

  • Lancashire (England). County Council.
Date:
1896
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Credit: [Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, County Palatine of Lancaster / Lancashire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    XXXI]. where 92 and 77 per cent, of the scarlet fever cases were removed respectively. The following table gives the posi¬ tion of the various County districts in regard to hospital provision:— Boroughs Urban Sanitary Districts Rural Sanitary Districts I O H ’go tn c co’ 6 & | rt | 1 < Districts with Hospitals ... 8 15 5 28 640S14 2.36230 Districts with Small-pox Hospitals only. 5 9 2 1G 252755 70778 Districts with Hospital Schemes in progress or under consideration.. 2 13 G 21 251921 281620 Districts claiming the privilege of sending patients to Hospitals in other Districts 3 31 3 37 439341 113481 Districts without Hospital accom¬ modation ... 1 27 5 33 236119 407893 Districts giving no information on this point ... 1 i' 5S88 1051 Total ... ... ... 19 9G 21 1361826838 1111053 There still remain 33 districts without hospital provision ; and 37 districts claim to have the privilege of removing patients to hospitals belonging to other Authorities, from the latter dis¬ tricts only 15-6 per cent, of the infectious cases were removed • from 14 districts the removals amounted to 21, and from 9 dis¬ tricts nil. An Inquiry was held on June 2nd bv Dr. Theodore Thomson, Medical Inspector of the Local Government Board, with reference to an appeal of the Fylde Rural District Council against the Fylde, Preston, and Garstang Small-pox Hospital Order, 1895, and the Fylde Joint Hospital District Order 1895, made by the County Council in pursuance of the powers conferred upon them by the Joint Hospitals Act, 1893 Both