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

  • East Riding of Yorkshire (England). County Council
Date:
1925
Catalogue details

Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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

    68/90 (page 66)
    7miiil)er were dealt witli at tbe York Clinio. Not a ]i(‘\v (*as(* ait('nded Hie Tjeeds Clinic from tlie East Hiding- (lining' llie \'ear. dduo-e ai'c no iii'i^ation Irealment centres subsidiary 1() Hie Clinics, aiid as there are so few cases in the conniry disiricts Hieir establishment is not necessary. Xecessiious persons are assisted to obtain treatment by the payment of Hieir ti'avellino- expenses to the Clinics. Dining' Hie year 10 persons (9 adults and 1 child) uere so assisted at a cost of £00 17s. IJd. Of this amount no less than £22 Ts. 4d. was paid in respect of the attendance of four jiatients. As no information is av.ailable as to tiie circumstances attendant on the conti'action of the disease one cannot enter a protest if a patient is refunded all his expenses for treatment of disease which may have been contracted by his own folly. Admittedly this provision assures the treatment of (‘ases which v'onld othei'wise jirobably oo untreated to the (h'trinumt of their own health, but it seems anomalous that a patient with tuberculosis attending' at a Disjiensary is not so o-enerously assisted. lliirino' Hie year 251 specimens were submitted for laboratory examination. Of these 128 were sent by pract itioiiers. No lequests were received for arsenobenzol or allied substitutes for the ti’eatment of patients in their own homes.