[Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Winchester U.D.C. / City.
- Winchester (England). Urban District Council.
- Date:
- 1938
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Winchester U.D.C. / City. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![8.—Ambulance Facilities. Motor Ambulances owned by the following are available:- (a) Royal Hants County Hospital, for hospital and public use. (b) St. John’s Ambulance Brigade (Winchester Division), for public use. (c) City Co unci], for Fever Hospital work. 4. — Nursing in the Home. (a) GENERAL. In .addition to the two nurses employed by,the Winchester and District Society for Visiting Nurses there are private nurses practising in the area. (b) Maternity Nursing. The Corporation Midwife acts,also as Maternity Nurse, working under private medical practitioners. (c) INFECTIOUS Diseases. The nursing of children under school age who are suffering from non-notifiable infectious diseases is undertaken by the Health Visitors when required. (d) SPECIAL Nursing. All Agreement was made in May, 1936, between the City Council and the Winchester and District Nursing Association whereby the latter provides home-nursing assistance on behalf of the Corporation for patients in necessitous circumstances who are notified to the Medical Officer of Health to have Pneumonia. 5 —Clinic and Treatment Centres. Unchanged. 6.—Hospitals. (а) Public. 1. Public Assistance Institution Wards ... 148 beds 2. County Council Maternity Ward, St. Paul’s Hill ... ... ... ... 4 beds 8. Victoria Isolation Hospital ... ... 33 beds (б) Voluntary. 1. Medical, Surgical and Children’s Wards ... 178 beds 2. Maternity Wards ... ' ... ... 10 beds The City Council accepts responsibility for the cost of the institutional treatment of all necessitous materriitV cases; normal](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3028241x_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
