Report : 1934.

  • West Cornwall Hospital (Penzance, England)
Date:
1934
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report : 1934. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT TO THE SUBSCRIBERS, At the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Annual Meeting, March 6th, 1935. A Record Year. Again the Committee beg to report that another record has been achieved by the work done at the Hospital in the year 1934, thus renewing the sequence of records made year by year which was broken in 1933. The new record is set up in every deparment of hospital service—in in-patients, in the number of operations performed, in the number of those using the X-Ray unit, but with a record in the other direction of the lowest number of out-patients availing them¬ selves of subscribers’ tickets. It would seem that the Hospital has reached the peak of its resources of its accommodation, which has been over¬ taxed. Mention was made in the previous report of the accentuated overcrowding of the Men’s Ward. The Child¬ ren’s Ward has been an outlet for excessive demands on the space of the Women’s Ward ; but no such relief is available for the men. During the year overcrowding on the men's side has so persisted as to cause the staff and the Committee of Management much anxiety. The public were acquainted previously that the Committee had caused consideration of it to be referred to their Building Committee, that their deliberations were overshadowed by the outlay, and that further consideration was deferred to the end of the financial year. It remains as it was, except that the position is more aggravated. With 16 or 17 men in a ward which was provided for 12 beds, and at one time with five urgent male cases which had to be accommodated in private wards, it is obvious that the situation must be regarded as serious. Hospital service must be given. Whether the public may be surprised or no, the plain fact is that another ward should be provided for the men’s side.
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