Annual report 1953 / Banstead Hospital, Sutton, Surrey.

  • Banstead Hospital. Hospital Management Committee.
Date:
[1954?]
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Credit: Annual report 1953 / Banstead Hospital, Sutton, Surrey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BANSTEAD HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN’S REPORT The Banstead Hospital Management Committee present this Report as their first publication since the Committee took office on 5th July, 1948. In previous years the Committee had received from the Physi¬ cian Superintendent a report on the medical progress of the hospital and it is hoped that the wider publicity given to the present document will be of interest to all concerned with hospital work. The various activi¬ ties of the hospital and the medical work during the year 1953 are set out in the pages which follow. In July, 1948, the Management Committee appreciated that they were confronted with the difficult task of carrying out the many improve¬ ments necessary to bring the hospital up to modern standards and that it could only be accomplished by a long-term programme ; little had been spent on capital improvements for many years and the effect of war-time deficiencies, and damage to the structure by enemy action, had not been completely restored. A great deal has, however, been accomplished, despite the lack of capital funds and the restricted amount available for maintenance, and up to the end of 1953 substantial sums have been expended on the following major works :— Modernisation and re-equipment of fourteen Admission, Treatment and Convalescent Wards. Adaptation and furnishing premises for Patients’ Club, Library, Reading Room and Patients’ Canteen. Provision of Hairdressing Departments for male and female patients. Complete replacement of Recreation Hall floor and proscenium and installation of new dual-type Cinema projector. Improvements of main hospital entrance, reception centre and administrative offices. Adaptations of buildings for Staff Social Centre. Adaptation and furnishing a Villa as a Male Nurses’ Home. Replacement of X-Ray apparatus. Adaptation of premises for R.C. Chapel. Re-siting of Needleroom, male and female Occupational Therapy departments, Pathological Laboratory, and Nurses’ Training School. Complete installation of automatic internal telephone system. Improvements to the Boiler House plant and installation of two new calorifiers. Many other improvements and amenities have been provided which are too numerous to record but which have been most valuable for the well-being and comfort of the patients and staff.
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