[Report 1942] / Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council.

  • Cumberland (England). County Council.
Date:
1942
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Credit: [Report 1942] / Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    new jiroposals cannot be regarded as entirely satisfactory. The allowances are nirderstood to be only temporary in their application and related to the mair-power problem. They do not provide for assistance in norr-pnhrrorrary tuberculosis, and yet tribcrculosis of the spirre can be just as over-whelnritrg in its econorrric effects as tuberxrrlosis of the lungs. The allowances, except for the exceptiorral case, cease auto- nratically and abruptly wherr a patient has been out of the sanatoriunr for IS nronths, and trray cease much eardier. The allowarrces, thcrefor'e, altogether fail to meet tire needs of the advanced case, and yet this is particularly the type of case which most requires and would best repay the granting of conditional maintenance allowances. It is the advanced and infectious case which spreads this disease and completes the '.'icious circle. Apart altogether fronr the plain himranitar'ian point of view that the advanced case is at least as much in need of financial assistance as the early case, the advanced case should be rxlieved of financial arrxiety in respect of himself or his household and dependants, corrditionally on his being willing to enter a hospital for this type of case. By such voluntar'v .segregation the patient would protect his family and contacts from infection, and from the point of \ iew of the State it would be a well worth while iirsurance. ()b\’ioir.sly the srrggestion implies that such hosidtals should be run on the broadest po.ssible linesandshould be as little institutional as possible. Cancer Dirring the year a further' rejrort on the development of the ertneer scheme was issued by the Medical' Sitb-Corn- rvrillec rtpiroinfed by the Crtnccr ('omrnittee for the atea. ** .\ mrmber of conferences have been held to consider this r'ei)ort, which dealt with domestic ])olicy irr the matter of the developmerrt of a cancer scheme The rnairr r'ecornmenda- tioris of the rejjort were that the dirrgnosis of carreer should be centred rrt the ('ttrrtbcrlarrd lnfirnrar\' irr the consrrltant staff and at the Whitchax'cn Hosjdtrrl (or other centres to be established), in \’isiting rorrsrrltants, artd that strr'gicrrl treatment shotrld, in general, be centred on the Citrnbcrland Initr'-mary. The report also derrlt with tln' estrrblishment of ;r .secr'ctariat at the ('utrrberland Infirrrrrtr'y, radio-thera- peutic services, propaganda and other matter's. .< Truatnieiit of Cancer, issited Nu\ ember, 1942.