Report of the Committee of Management and Medical Director : 1948 / Papworth Village Settlement.

  • Papworth Village Settlement (Cambridge, England)
Date:
1948
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Management and Medical Director : 1948 / Papworth Village Settlement. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    During the whole time there were no changes in the personnel or in the plant. Early in the year some trouble was experi¬ enced with the tube-head of the portable unit. This was soon rectified and since then the unit, in spite of considerably increased demands for its use, has been quite trouble- free. In this report it is impracticable to make, (as in previous reports), a direct comparison of the amount of work undertaken, owing to the shorter length of the period concerned. Both the number of patients X-rayed, and the number of exposures made were increased by about 4-^ per cent over 1947. The number of films of chests. Barium Meals, Bones and Joints, Obstetrics, Dental and Nasal Sinuses, all showed increases over 1947, while there was a decrease in the number of Bronchograms, Tomograms and Pyelograms. There were increases in the number of In-Patients, Staff, Patients for Local Authorit¬ ies, and Visitors X-rayed ; with a decrease in the number of Adult Villagers, Papworth Industries Personnel, Village Children and private patients. It is notable that the number of patients X-rayed for Local Authorities showed an increase of 39 per cent over 1947. A detailed analysis of the work undertaken follows :— Bernhard Baron Hospital : Total X-ray Photogra phs ... 3,576 Analysis of films taken : Chests ... • ■ • • • • ... 2,537 Bronchograms • • • • • « 25 Pyelograms 7 Tomograms ... * • • • « • ... 209 Barium Meals and Enemas ... 60 Bones and Joints • • • • • • ... 226 Dental ... • • • • • • 43 Nasal Sinuses ... • • • • • • 25 Other types ... • • • • • • 40 Analysis of hategories of Patients X-rayed : In-Patients ♦ • • • • • ... 1,555 Adult Villagers • • • • • • ... 351 Children of School age normally resident In the Settlement 54 Hospital Special and General Staff 177 Patients referred by local authorities and local practitioners ... 290 Private Patients • • • ar • • 30 Visitors . ..: 21 Papworth Industries Personnel ... 236 110] Vaughan X-ray Department Nelson-Langermann Surgical Hospital Films taken : Chests ... ... ... ... ... 157 Skull ... ... ... ... ... 2 Patients X-rayed ... ... ... 146 Portable Unit : Films taken (all chests) . 81 Grand Total 3,81 I films of 2,941 patients. On February 25th I lectured on X-rays and their applications to the Cambridge Branch of the Institute of Medical Laboratory Tech¬ nology. In April I spent a few days at Enham to assist Dr. MacCallum in the installation of a mobile X-ray Unit in the White House Clinic. On May Nth the Department was visited by members of the staff of the Radiographic Department of Messrs, liford Ltd., with a large party of Swedish Radiographers. During May the Department undertook the preparation of a series of colour photo¬ graphs of chick embryos dead in the shell, to illustrate a lecture on “The Relationship of Visceral Anomalies of Full Term Dead in Shell to Embryonic Malposition.” This lec¬ ture was given by Mr.W. Marshall, in charge of Papworth Industries Incubation Research Laboratory, at the 8th World’s Poultry Science Congress in Copenhagen. In July the Department was visited by numerous members of the British Medical Association Congress at Cambridge, and assisted in the preparation and demonstration of material shown during lectures in the section on Diseases of the Chest. OUT-PATIENTS DEPARTMENT Number of attendances for the period January 1st to July 5th 1948 : Morning Visits ... ... 2,113 Evening Visits ... 892 New Cases ... 383 A.P. Refills . ... 2,189 Total ... 5,577