[Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Todmorden Borough.

  • Todmorden (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1925
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Credit: [Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Todmorden Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    18 Adverting to these Clinics and Treatment Centres, the present accomniodation is in all cases a makeshift and so soon as practicable special buildings should be provided. The ideal would be to unify all the medical services which arc essential]}^ public in their nature, and if and when an oppor¬ tunity occurrs adequately to house the present services, I recommend that nothing could be better than that they should form an out-patient department to a small local hospital. I have for some time pleaded for such a hospital and such unification. There are reasons to believe that money will have to be spent if not by you then by the Guardians. whomsoever this money is spent it will be public mone}, and any separate action is bound to be detrimental to the Public Health Service as a whole. The hospital I have in contemplation would have enough beds;— For the requirements of the Guardians. For cases which whilst requiring hospital treatment are crowded out from a large hospital. For cases which of necessity are discharged from our large hospitals still requiring skilled attention. For Alaternity cases. For Children with Minor Ailments. This hospital would also have an out-patients depart¬ ment where the present health service, including School Work, M. and C.W. work, Tuberculosis work, would all be unified, and where in addition orthopaedic work and artificial sunlight treatment could also be carried out. The need there is for this hospital in Todmorden is in my opinion pressing. In estimating the need there is for such hospital ac¬ commodation, we should accept as our standard that every case should receive treatment an an in-patient where the patient requires treatment which cannot be as efficiently carried out at home, and where such treatment is likely materiall} to diminish the period of invalidity, physical suffering of the patient, or any residual disability.