[Report 1944] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough.
- Birkenhead (England). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1944
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1944] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Tlie following specimens were sent to the Municipal Laboratory (luring the year: — J4a(jteriologieal sj^eeimens OUlo .Bio('heniieal syjeeinieiis Pathological specimens ’Jtitis ARROWE MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL ANNEXE 0140 patients wei-e admitted to this Hospital in 1044 as against .‘HTj patients in 1040. This iiuu’ease was paidly due to the i’i*striction placed on admis- sions to the Munici))al llosjutal following H Daw and it l)(*c;ime necessary to obtain the sanction of the Council to increase the numlM r of available beds at the Annexe. A total of 40 beds are now maintained, and this has to s«jme extent eased the strain on the Hospital. It must be rememl)ered that there is still a grave shortage of beds at tin* .Mnnicij)al Hosjiital j)arti\ die* to two wards having been desti-oyed by enemy bombardmeiil and to other reasons. Undoubted benefit is felt by patients who are trans- ferred to the wards at the Annexe. It is felt that patients following a stay at Arrowe are dischai'tted iniudi more ])hysically fit tlian if their entire eonvalenscence had been spent at tbe Municipal Hos])ital. The average duration of stay in Arrowe is in the neighbonrluKxl of fourteen days. Men Women Children Total In Hospital on 31st H('c., 1943 Admissions o 13 6 21 From AInnicipal Hos})ital Discharges 221 293 125 (-39 To own Homes To Birkenhead ]\lunici])al IbS 279 110 557 Hosi)ital To Birkenhead Infectious 21 15 S 44 Diseases Hos])ital To Birkenhead Orthopaedic — — 3 3 Hospital — — 3 3> To Military Camps 27 — — 27 Died in Hospital — 1 — 1 Total Discharges 216 295 124 635 Total cases in Hospital at 31st Dec., 1944 ,7 11 7 25](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28927382_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
