[Report 1933] / Medical Officer of Health, Banff County Council.

  • Banffshire (Scotland). County Council.
Date:
1933
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Credit: [Report 1933] / Medical Officer of Health, Banff County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    7. Sick Poor—Arraagements for medical care and nursing. ]\Icdical attendance on the sick poor in their own homes is provided by the Parish iSledical Officers as formerly. W’here institutional treatment is found to be necessarv, it is provided at the Seafield Cottage Hospital, Buckie, the local hospitals within the County, and at the Royal Inlirmary, Aberdeen. The County Council subscribes to the funds of the Local District Nursing Associations to secure the ser- vices of their nurses for attendance on the sick poor. S. Hospital and Ambulance facilities. There are three hospitals in the County owned and ad- ministered by the Public Health Committee, namely, the Isolation Hospital, Dujfftowu, the Campbell Hospital, Port- soy, and the Seafield Cottage Hospital, Buckie. The nursing staff in each of those hospitals consists of a Matron and three Probationer Nurses; a Matron, Staff Nurse, and five Proba- tioner Nurses; a Matron, Staff Nurse, and two Probationer Nurses respectively. These Probationer Nurses are gener- ally young persons who desire to take up nursing, but are too 3'oung to be taken on the staff of an approved training- school hospital, and are prepared to give their services in a small hospital in the hope they will in course get into a hospital where training is obtained to enable them to become State registered nurses. Their period of service in our hos- pitals counts for nothing, and all that our hospitals can offer is that every effort will be made to place suitable nurses in the larger hospitals. In these circumstances, it will be readily understood t^iere is no great inducement for young persons to take up service in the smaller hospitals, and as a matter of fact the staffing of these hospitals is at times a real diffi- culty. It would be a great help both in securing suitable girls and in maintaining efficiency and interest in nursing if arrangements were made whereby a course of lectures on Anatom}% Physiology and PI}fgiene were given them and they were allowed to sit this part of their examination for i ln- S.R.N. Certificate before they commence duty in a training- school hospital. This is a matter that should be taken up with the General Nursing Council and the Department of Health. For the transport of patients suffering from infectious disease, motor ambulances are provided at the Cami-)bcl! Hospital, Portsoy, and the Isolation Hospital, Dufftown. .At the Rose-Innes Plospital, Aberchirder, and the Turner Me- morial Hospital, Keith, there are horse ambulances available both for infectious disease and non-infcctious disease cases. At Buckie, there is a motor ambulance for the transport
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