[Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, East Riding of Yorkshire County Council.

  • East Riding of Yorkshire (England). County Council
Date:
1925
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Credit: [Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, East Riding of Yorkshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of TTenlili is Adiniiiisirative TiiLernilosis Offiror. Tlie Sn jXM'iiii ('inU'iii of lvnyw(*]l Saiiaioi'i uin, Dr. T. iioadnian, is ili(‘ (diiiical '^rul)e]'(‘iilosis Ofiicer. riie siaff of the Dispensary consists of tlie Clinical 'l\i])ei(‘ulosis Ofiicer, a Clerk, and an Attendant, tog-etlier witli iliree Scdiool A^urses wlio attend once a week to report j)e]-sonally on the i-esults of tlieir visits to the lionn‘s of file iiihercnlous jiatients in file Comity. d'lu' affendances at tlie Dispensary during' tlie year totalled Gill. One hundred and twenty-nine cases were seen for the first time, as compared with G48 attendances and IdT new cases in the pre(;eding' year. linns .AVAiLACLK. At the East Eiding and City of York Joint Sanatorium (he Countv Council have 43 beds available for all types of cases, except such as require active singical or orthopiedic, treatment. Patients have also been sent dui'ing the year to the Yearsley lEa’dge Sanatorium, York, to the (h'ipples’ Hospital, Alton, and to the Oithojundic llosjiital at Kirbymoorside. One patient discharged from Eaywell was sent to the Preston Hall Colonjv The special need for the isolation and treatment of advan(‘ed cases of piilmonary tuberculosis is recognised. At pi'csent such cases are removed to Eaywell and segregated. 'J’he fourteen beds in the Hospital Block (six for males and eight for females) are always fully occujiied by advaiu*ed cases. In cases where the patient is unwilling to be moved, airangements are made when- ever possible to send any children to Eaywell or to relatives. Co-ommATiox with Sanitaua’ ArTiioniTiES. Any cases brought to notice by the District Medical Officers of Health receive prompt attention. Co-orERATTOx AViTii HOSPITALS, Ac. Aiiv adult cases needing active surgical treatment are sent to the Hull Eoyal Infirmary. As soon as possible these cases come liack to EayAvell to continue treatment. Ohildien are sent by arrangement to the Children*s Hospifal, Hull, and Gynecological cases to the Women’s jros]dtal, Hull. Orthopedic cases are sent to Alton and Kirbymoorside, and cases of infectious disease to the (hninty Isolation Hospital at Driffieldt