[Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, Godalming Borough.

  • Godalming (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1937
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Credit: [Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, Godalming Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    General medical and surgical cases are treated at the above well-e([uipped voluntary hospital (224 in-]uitients and 513 out-patients in 1937 being Godalining residents) and also at the Surrey County Council Public Assistance Institution, Warren Road, Guild lord ,which also takes maternity cases. Tiie County Plospital will only accept com])licated maternity cases requiring operation. (2) IVIaternity and Nursing Homes.—There are two private homes in the Borough supervised by the County Council. (3) Infectious Diseases are treated at the Woodbridge Hospital of the Guildford ’and Godaiming Joint Hospital Board, and smallpox cases at the Hospital of the Surrey County Council at Clandon. Godaiming is a member of the Board, and your Medical Officer of Health is its iMedical Officer. The Annual Report for 1937 is here printed :— Admissions to Hospital during 1937. Prop: Scarlet Diph- Ery-Typh- per 1,000 District Fever theria sips: oid Other Total popn. Deaths. Guildford M.B. , ... 102 25 — 6 — 133 3.4 1 (Diph.) Godaiming ,.. 19 3 — 22 1.7 — Guildford K.D. , ... 15 10 1 — — 26 0.8 1 (Septic Pneumonia) Hambledon R.D. 3 1 — — — 4 Not available Farnham U.D. . .. 8 .8 — 16 — — Mytchett 1 (Transferred to Aldershot Hospital) 148 47 1 6 — 202 — 2 Regarding the admissions from Parnham, these ad- missions were made at a time when the Parnham Isolation Hospital was over-crowded and unable to deal with them. The only demand made upon the isolation ])rovision of the Hospital of any special nature during the year was in connection with the admission of a case of erysipelas