[Report 1926] / Monmouthshire County Council.

  • Monmouthshire County Council
Date:
1926
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Credit: [Report 1926] / Monmouthshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are treated in the first instance at tlie Cefn Mahly Hospital and at other hospitals of tlie Memorial Association as occasion arises. B (2) Maternity. There is no Maternity Hospital in tlie Comity at the time of writing. The arrangements for the opening of The Coldra, near NewpoH, which has been pre- sented to the County Council by Sir John W. Beynon, Bart., C.B.E., for use as a Maternity Hospital, hawe been held up owing to the outbreak of Small Pox in the County. B (3) Children. The County has nO' Children’s Hospital, but 12 beds halve been reseiwed at the Eoyal National Orthopaedic Hospital, London, for the crippled children of l^Ionmouthshire, and these beds are fully occupied by County patients. INSTITUTIONAL PROVISION FOR UNMARRIED MOTHERS. There is a Maternity Hostel for unmarried mothers at NantydeiTy, provided by voluntary effort, and tO' which the County Council contributes a donation of .£400 per annum. It has accommodation for 16 women, who remain ' at the Hostel for varying periods not exceeding 6 months, so that they may be trained and reclaimed and placed in desirable situations. In the majority of instances the infants are adopted, every care being exercised that the homes and their circum- stances are in every way suitable. AMBULANCE FACILITIES. (a) An Ambulance for the removal of Small Pox patients tO' the Isolation Hospitals has been purchased by the County Council. (b) The Newport Borough Ambulance is available for County cases which are admitted to the Borough Isolation Hospital. Ambulances are in use at the Isolation Hospitals of the Bedwellty, Abertillery, Tredegar, and Ebbw Vale Urban District Councils. The latter two are horse- drawn vehicles. (c) The Collieries at Ebbw Vale, Six Bells, CWnitillery, Tredegar, Cwmbran, Oakdale, and the Rhymney Valley have ambulances which are used for Colliery accident cases and under certain aiTangements for the trajisport to Hospital of the dependants of the workers. Motor Ambulances are also available at the District General Hospitals, while at Monmouth there is a. town ambulance available through the generosity of the local division of the British Red Cross Society.