[Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, East Sussex County Council.

  • East Sussex (England). County Council
Date:
1925
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Credit: [Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, East Sussex County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    E.N. had a gas replacement on 23rd March, 1926, having developed an acute pleural effusion. The fluid was replaced by air with very satisfactory results. Her temperature feU in ten days, and she has gained twelve pounds. Unfortunately, the pneumothorax could not be preserved, the lung having expended and become adherent. So far, however, her improvement has been fully maintained. J. R. DINGLEY, Medical Superintendent. 8th July, 1926. ISOLATION HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATION. A.—SMALLPOX. T. Existing Accommodation. (a) Maintained by District Sanitary Authorities. Sedgebrook Smallpox Hospital.—This Hospital serves the Western Smallpox Hospital District, which includes the Chailey, Cuckfield, East Grinstead, Newhaven, Stej.ming East, and Uckfield Rural Districts, and the Burgess Hill, Cuckfield, East Grinstead, Haywards Heath, Newhaven, Seaford, and Uckfield, Urban Districts. The area of the combined districts is 276,287 acres, the population (1925) 117,845, and the rateable value (1912) is 1^837,519. The hospital contains two wards, one with 6, and the other with 5 beds. There is ample space on the site for the erection of any additional temporary or other buildings that may be required. A mortuary, ambulance house, and steam disinfector (Thresh pattern) were taken over with the hospital; and the buildings, although originally used for farm purposes, have been adapted to their present use. Hailsham Smallpox Hospital.—This is a small temporary building with 6 beds, which has proved of service in emergency in the past. [b] Maintained by County Boroughs. All these hospitals are situated within the Administra- tive County. (i.) Hastings Smallpox Hospital.—Situated at Brede, in the Battle Rural District. Accommodation for 30 patients. Areas served ;—County Borough of Hastings ; beds also available for patients from the Boroughs of Bexhill and Rye, Urban District of Battle, and the Rural Districts of Battle, Hastings and Rye. (ii.) Eastbourne Smallpox Hospital.—Situated at Langney in the Eastbourne Rural District. Accommodation for 18 patients, with space for erection of additional accommodation. Areas served :—County Borough of Eastbourne, Rural District of Eastbourne. (iii.) Brighton Smallpox Hospital.—Situated at Fulking Borstal, in the Steyning East Rural District. Areas served :—County Borough of Brighton ; beds also available for patients from the Boroughs of Hove and Lewes and the Urban District of Portslade. 2. Emergency Accommodation. , The following Districts have hospital accommodation which could be used temporarily for cases of smallpox. At Bexhill the Berthon huts at Clinch Green could be used in time of emergency ; and the Town Council of Rye, and the Rye Rural District Council have accommodation which might be similarly utilized. The Ticehurst Rural District Council have provided a site covered with cement concrete, on which a temporary building or tents could be erected at short notice. B.—DISEASES OTHER THAN SMALLPOX. In addition to the District Authorities included in the Table on page 30 as having made pro- vision more or less complete for the isolation of cases of infectious disease, either by themselves maintaining hospitals or by entering into agreement with some District Authority already having a hospital within the Administrative County, the Urban District Council of Battle and the Rural District Councils of Hastings and Battle have made arrangements for the admission of infectious cases from their districts into the Hastings Town Council’s Sanatorium. The Newhaven Rural District Council have an arrangement for the admission of infectious cases from their district into the Brighton Town Council’s Sanatorium.