[Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Devizes R.D.C.

  • Devizes (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1948
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Credit: [Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Devizes R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Since the new set-up, expensive equipment for clinical, domestic and office use has been readily forthcoming, but nurses have not. Unless a stream of new recruits of the right type starts to flow into the nursing profession, expenditure on equipment will be largely wasted. Whilst an insufficient number of trained nurses continues to be over- driven, and only inadequate numbers of very varying capabilities apply for training as Student Nurses, Hospital patients cannot get that standard of skill and care they may so hopefully expect. Clinics and Treatment Centres. Under the National Health Service Act, 1946, there have been, or are now held in Devizes: — 1. Ante-Natal and Post-Natal—Scout Hall, bi-weekly. 2. Infant Welfare Clinic—Wesleyan Schoolroom, bi-weekly. 3. Immunisation against Diphtheria—Wesleyan Schoolroom, monthly. 4. Orthopaedic—Scout Hall, weekly. 5. Tuberculosis—Devizes Hospital, weekly. Ambulance Services, All existing vehicles and staffs have been taken over by the Wilts County Council, under the Health Service Act, 1946. Devizes has a subsidiary Station in Bridewell Street. Laboratory Services. The Greville Laboratory at Salisbury continues under the National Health Service Act to supply these. DEVIZES AND PEWSEY JOINT ISOLATION HOSPITAL. Diseases Bor- ough 1 Devizes . E.D. Pewsey R.D. Other Dis- tricts Mili- tary Total • Scarlet I'ever 6 8 1 6 1 22 Aleasles 9 — 1 19 Piieiqreral Pyrexia 1 1 2 ()l)ser\ation 2 5 1 1 9 Piiemnonia 3 3 Cerelirn S|)iiial f’ever . Ei-ysi]7clas — 1 1 Tonsillitis 2 1 — 1 — 4 Totals 23 15 2 9 2 51 riie Hospital was re-opened at the end of April, 1948. Since July 5th, 1948, this hospital ceased to be a rate-aided Institution, and became a unit in the Mid-Wilts Group of Hospitals in the Western Region.
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