[Report 1931] / Monmouthshire County Council.

  • Monmouthshire County Council
Date:
1931
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    The District Councils of Caerleon, Bedwas and MacKen, LlanfrecKfa Upper, Llantarnam, Magor, Mynyddislwyn, Panteg, Pontypool, Risca and St. Mellons, contract with the Corporation of Newport for the isolation of any special case at the Borough Isolation Hospital at Alteryn. D.—PROVISION REQUIRED. It can be definitely stated that the facilities for the isolation of the infectious sick in the Administrative County have never been adequate, and perhaps it would be truer to say that they have been woefully lacking, and this lack of provision in many instances has been responsible for the fatalities resulting from infectious disease. Having regard to the economic condition of the Administrative County, one has to refrain from suggesting that the County should embark upon the provision of three new Isolation Hospitals complete with modern facilities, as this embarkation would involve a rather large capital expenditure. It might be thought advisable to provide one central Isolation Hospital for the County, and rope in with it the remaining Isolation Hospitals which we shall cite later as offering facilities for the areas for which they now serve. It is interesting here to note that in a special report provided to the County Council on Thursday, January 2nd, 1919, upon the provision of isola- tion hospital facilities, three new hpspitals were recommended and the principle was approved. Recently, Mr. Jenkin Evans, the County Sanitary Inspector, and myself paid visits of inspection to the Isolation Hospitals within the Administrative County that offered anything like suitable facilities, those which we did not visit having been condemned outright as unsuitable. The results of our visits are that the only Hospitals that we could recom- mend the County Council to consider as being part of their scheme are those situated at Bedwellty, at Llanfoist, at Monmouth and at Chepstow, whilst the hospital at Abertillery may be considered for Smallpox purposes in the event of the user of “ The Beeches ” Isolation Hospital, Abersychan, being transferred for the Isolation of general infectious diseases. The details of these hospitals are tabulated as follows : —
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