[Report 1926] / Medical Officer of Health, Barnsley County Borough.
- Barnsley (England : Unitary authority). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1926
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1926] / Medical Officer of Health, Barnsley County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Medical Officer at Mount Vernon Sanatorium, 52 beds, (plus 2 huts) situated in the adjoining Urban District of Worsbor- ou»h, and is used jointly by the County Boroughs of Barnsley and Wakefield. There is but one Tuberculosis Dispensary at Queen’s Road open for Barnsley patients upon four sessions per week, when Dr. Penny is in attendance. The Corporation employs two whole time Tuberculosis Nurses, who assist Dr. Penny at the Dispensary and spend the remainder of their time ‘ following up ’ notified cases, contacts and suspected cases at their homes. ^ At the Sanatorium 27 beds are available for Barnsley patients and the type of case admitted is usually pulmonary, if possible in an early stage, as complete hospital nursing and detailed or extensive surgical t]*eatment are not available. Advanced cases of pulmonary tuberculosis are advised to seek admission to the Workhouse Infirmary, but occasionally some of the cases are admitted to the Sanatoidum. _ iii. The Medical Officer of Health is also School Medical Officer and Chief Administrative Tuberculosis Officer. He is also Medical Superintendent of the Isolation Hos- pitals of the Corporation and of the Maternity Home. The Assistant Medical Officer is also Assistant School Medical Officer and attends the School Climes and other Ins- titutions when the Medical Officer of Health is not available. I ull co-operation is thus secured between the various branches of public health work. Cases of suspected tuberculosis are referred to the Dis- pensary at Queen’s Road and children are admitted thence to the Open Air School or Mount Vernon Sanatorium on the advice of the Clinical Tuberculosis Officer. iv. ^ The Tuberculosis Officer in the past has usually written iniormal letters to the medical practitioners instead of using the official forms Z.l. to Z.5. as recommended in Memor- andum 286. b- Tjie practitioners, however, are very slow to use forms G.IM7 and G.P.36 and Dr. Penny has found it necessary to](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28903365_0101.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
