[Report 1943] / Medical Officer of Health, Formby U.D.C.

  • Formby (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1943
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Credit: [Report 1943] / Medical Officer of Health, Formby U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE DEM DISTRICT OR FORMBY. UlBRArty INTERBI REPORT of the MEDICAL OFFICER OR HEALTH FDR TEE /YEAR 3.945. Statistics and Social ili^^itIojis^ of the Area. Area in acres - .7,503 Population (Census 1931) - 7,957 Registrar-Generalrs estimate of (middle 1943) - 9,294. ' population. Number of inhabited houses (Census 1951) - 1,955. Number of inhabited houses end of year 1943, according to Rate Book - 2,740. Rateable Value £.80,076.0.0, Sum represented by a penny rate, £515. GENERAL PROVISIONS OFISHLTH iSIT-ACL CBS IN TIE AREA. Hospitals. Smallpox and Other Infectious Diseases. - There is no Infectious Diseases Hospital in tFe district^ 'Under the Local Government Act, 1929, Section 63 the Council have entered into a joint agreement between the Urban District Councils of Formby and Eitherland on the one part and the Borough of Bootle on the other part. This agreement provides for the reservation of sixteen beds for infectious diseases other than smallpox at the Isolation Hospital, Linaere Lane, Bootle. In the case of smallpox tho agreement provides for the reservation of one bod- for each ten thousand of tho population with a minimum of five beds at the Liverpool Corporation Small- pox Hospital, Sparrow Hall, Fazackerley. In both cases additional beds are to be provided subject to the necessary accommodation being available. Details of charges under the agreement with Bootle Corporation for all Notifiable Diseases other than smallpox and for smallpox, arc as follows:- Retaining Foe (Smallpox) £2 per thousand of the population with a minimum of £10. Fee paid for the year 1943, £16.0.0. Maintenance in Hospital (Smallpox) £4.4.0. per week plus cost of conveyance at the rate of 2/Sd per mile calculated 'according to the distance travelled after the ambulance leaves the Liverpool Corporation Depot until its return thereto. Retaining Fee (Other Infectious Diseases) £90 per annum based upon the capital cost of Bootle Hospital loss the capital cost of the Tuberculosis soction. Maintenance in Hospital is £2.2.0. per week, plus cost of conveyance as given below. Removal of patients any week day except Saturday, between the hours of . 7 a.m., a and 3 p.m. and on Saturday, between the hours of 7 a.m., and 11 a.m, - £1,5,0, per journey. Removal of patients at any time other than stated above - £1.17,5. per journey. Tuberculosis - Administered by the County Council. Tuberculosis Sispensary, Ellesmere, Crosby Road North, Waterloo. Maternity - There is no Maternity Hospital in the district, Tbut the laverpool Hospitals are available, Afcabulancc Facilities. (a) For infectious cases, Bootle Corporation Motor Ambulance. (b) For non-infectious cases - provided by Hospital or the Local Authority. For accidents and sudden illness on the street - provided by the Local Authority. The ambulance services for all purposes, infectious and non- inf ectious cases, also accidents, are very satisfactory.