[Report 1933] / Medical Officer of Health, Fife County Council.

  • Fife (Scotland). County Council
Date:
1933
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    In the Annual Report for 1932, as in former Reports, the inadequate nature of the premises at Market Street, Dunfermline and their un suitability for the work undertaken therein from the point of view o patients and staff were stressed. Dr. Gumley, Medical Officer, in the subscribed report animadverts on the unsatisfactory features of the centre and lack of facilities for the proper and sufficient treatment o patients : he emphasies the fact that the location is unsuitable ane militates against attendance and states that new and better premise are essential—an opinion substantiated in former reports. Whei , the Dunfermline Centre was established after the War it was frank! < recognised that the locus of the Centre was tentative and experimenta j no better or more convenient site being available at the time and th j volume of work to be done being problematical. The necessity of treatment centre at Dunfermline has been amply proved by the wor ! done and in lieu of the procrastination which has hitherto ruled, bone I fide active consideration should be devoted to the question. In the Report for 1932 I referred to the claim by the City of Edii I burgh for payment of the treatment of patients from Fife attendin the Centre in the Royal Infirmary maintained by the Town Counci i I understand that no decision has yet been arrived at but, as former] recorded, it is difficult to find any justification for the alleged debt b j the County. During 1933, the cost of travelling facilities granted to necessitoi patients who, otherwise, would not have been able to attend for trea i ment was £11 9s lid as compared with £11 17s 6d in 1932 and £14 17s 1 in 1931. Kirkcaldy Centre.—Dr. McIntosh, Medical Officer, records reduction in the number of new cases during the year although the was an increased number of patients attending from the County. In all, 412 patients attended the Centre during 1933, of whom 2: j were new cases (160 male, 60 female). Of the new cases 56 suffen ! from syphilis, 75 from gonorrhoea, 19 from non-specific venere infections and 70 from conditions other than venereal. The tot | attendances at the Centre for the year was 4,202 and 2,102 doses arseno-benzol compounds were administered. The aggregate in-patient days was 110 as compared with 167 in 19: and 404 in 1931. The number of defaulters was 56. The number of patients discharge cured was 104. The number of examinations of pathological material by the staff I the Centre was 216 and by Professor Tulloch, University Colleg Dundee, 665.
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