[Report 1928] / Medical Officer of Health, Northampton County Borough.

  • Northampton (England). County Borough Council
Date:
1928
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Credit: [Report 1928] / Medical Officer of Health, Northampton County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The notes on infant mortality, the incidence and mortality Other from infectious diseases, housing conditions, and other statistics Statistics usually included in the annual report, will be found under the headings referring to these matters. Attention is directed also to the vital statistics on page 6 and to Tables A, B, C, and D at the end of this report. II.—GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES. The three municipal hospitals are all situated in the country Hospitals outside the Borough boundary, viz. :— 1. —The Fever Hospital at Kingsthorpe, for the reception of scarlet fever, diphtheria, enteric, erysipelas, etc. cases ; approx¬ imately one hundred beds. 2. —The Smallpox Hospital at Hardingstone, which can accommodate about thirty patients, the number depending to some extent on their sex and age. In the spring of 1929 it was found necessary to extend the hospital so as to accommodate approximately one hundred patients. 3. —-Welford Road Tuberculosis Hospital for the reception of twenty-eight persons suffering from tuberculosis of the lungs. The Local Authority has made arrangements with a volun¬ tary body, viz. : The Northampton General Hospital, for the reception of maternity cases. Orthopaedic treatment for children and for adults suffering from surgical tuberculosis recommended by the Tuberculosis Officer, is provided by the Local Authority at the Manheld Orthopaedic Hospital, Northampton, a voluntary institution situated just outside the Borough. Altogether about twenty beds are regularly occupied by patients paid for by the Corporation. There is no municipal children's hospital, nor is one necessary, as children are well catered for at the existing institutions. The Local Authority makes no provision for the reception Institutional of unmarried girls about to become mothers. Most of these either Provision for w I 1 ii rv-j n r*r*i pr] go into the Union Infirmary or are confined at home. Mothers There is in the Borough a home for unmarried mothers, owned and managed by the Peterborough Diocesan Authorities, which receives girls from the Counties of Northampton and Rutland. It is registered under the Nursing Homes Registration Act, 1927, and has an honorary medical officer, and accom¬ modation for eight mothers and nine babies. Though few Borough girls enter this home, several have been sent by its managers to homes situated some distance from Northampton, this being the usual practice in dealing with such cases. These remain as in 1927. See report for that year, page 10. Ambulance Facilities