[Report 1930] / Monmouthshire County Council.

  • Monmouthshire County Council
Date:
1930
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Credit: [Report 1930] / Monmouthshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE ROYAL GWENT HOSPITAL, CARDIFF ROAD, NEWPORT. This Hospital serves the whole of the County of Monmouth (including Newport). The government of the Hospital is vested in the general meetings of the subscribers, but, subject to this, the management of the Hospital is vested in the Board of Directors, consisting of :—President, Vice-President, the Mayor of the County Borough of Newport, Chairman of the Monmouth- shire County Council, Medical Officers of Health for the County Borough of Newport and the County of Monmouth, respectively. Treasurer, six members of the Honorary Medical and Surgical Staff, eighteen Directors to be elected from the subscribers, one representative from the Workmen’s Hospital for every £200 annually contributed, and representatives from any other bodies of workmen contributing annually a like amount. A total of approximately 170 Directors. The Honorary Medical and Surgical Staff consists of such physicians and surgeons as the Directors may from time to time determine. At the present moment the Honorary Staff is as follows ;—One Consulting Physician, two Consulting Surgeons, one Consulting Surgeon to Eye Depart- ment, one Physician, three Surgeons for In-patients, one Surgeon to Eye De- partment, one Surgeon to Ear, Nose and Throat Department, three Assistant Physicians, three Assistant Surgeons, one Physician to the Skin Department, one Physician to the Psychiatric Department, three Anaesthetists, one Pathologist, one Radiologist, one Dental Surgeon, two Medical Officers to the Venereal Diseases Department. In addition to the above there are five Resident Medical Officers. The Hospital is maintained for the purpose of gratuitously supplying to the necessitous poor of Newport and Monmouthshire, both as In-patients and as Out-patients, medical advice, attendance, medicine and nursing. During the year 1930, 2,511 In-patients, 11,454 Out-patients and 6,795 Casual- ties, making a total of 18,249, were treated at the Hospital. The above patients made the following attendances:—Out-patients, 22,764, Casualty patients, 23,975, Venereal Diseases patients, 21,257, Massage and Electrical patients, 12,424, making a total of 80,420 attendances. Facilities are available at the Hospital for Operative Surgery, X-Ray, Dental, Ophthalmic and Mas- sage treatment. There are two operating theatres at the Hospital, sterilizing room, anaesthetists room, staff rooms. In addition one Out-patient theatre, and one Casualty Department theatre. The X-Ray Department is equipped with possibly one of the best, if not the best, X-Ray installations in Wales. The usual facilities of a general hospital are available in the Dental, Ophthal- mic and Massage Departments. There is a well appointed laboratory at the Hospital under the control of an Honorary Pathologist, with the help of a Laboratory Assistant. The Directors of the Hospital have embarked upon a scheme of extensions at an estimated cost of £70,000. This scheme will include the provision of a Nurses Hostel and the completion of a ward to con- tain thirty-two beds,
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