Annual report : 1945 / Mildmay Mission Hospital.

  • Mildmay Mission Hospital.
Date:
1945
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Credit: Annual report : 1945 / Mildmay Mission Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Staff The Council have very great pleasure in expressing their thanks for the valued services of the Honorary Visiting Staff, whose time and skill have been unstintingly given throughout the year. They are very sorry to lose the services of Miss G. Hill, M.D. (Lond.), F.R.C.S., F.R.C.O.G., who resigned owing to pressure of work on her appointment as Gynaecologist to the Royal Free Hospital. Her place has been filled by Miss E. M. Whapham, M.D., F.R.C.S., M.R.G.O.G. The services of Miss U. James, M.R.C.P., a specialist in diseases of children, have been an important addition to the facilities of the hospital. In presenting the reports of the Medical Superintendent, the Matron, the Lady Almoner and the Appeals Secretary, the Council are happy to take the opportunity of acknowledging their loyal and devoted services, together with the co-operation of the medical, nursing, ancillary and administrative staffs. Special mention must be made of the domestic staff, and especially the men and women of long service who have remained at their posts in circumstances often of great difficulty due to shortage of staff'. To Mr. A. E. Kemp, Head Porter who retired during the year after forty-five years’ service they wish many happy years of well-earned rest. Signed on behalf of the Council, GEORGE H. HUME, Chairman. Illness of Chairman The Council regret to report that Sir George Hume, J.P., L.C.C., has been seriously ill for a great part of the year. His wisdom and kindliness have been much missed in the affairs of the hospital, and members of Council and staff unite to wish him a complete recovery. MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT’S REPORT The year covered by this, the 68th annual report, is memorable in many respects. It has seen the end of the War. No longer have we to rush patients down to the basement ; and with the removal of the unhygienic black-out, the wards have regained their bright and cheery appearance. In this year of Victory which will be remembered for years to come, there may be another remembrance, for it was in 1945 that Penicillin began to be used on an increasing scale in civilian treatment. Surgeons and Hospital Sisters appreciate, more than others, the amazing way in which infections, which formerly were fatal, are cured. In all three wards there were remarkable recoveries following its use, though none were quite so dramatic as some in the children’s ward. Here the increasing use of oxygen tents in conjunction with penicillin has saved the lives of several tiny babies who had pneumonia. One such mite of a few weeks survived an operation for rib resection to drain a pleural abcess. On the whole, the surgical side of the work was again pre¬ dominant. During the year, there were 925 in-patients, 883 being treated to a conclusion. Major Operations numbered over 400, and there were 770 minor operations. The Dental, Massage and X-ray Departments were continuously busy, and the Dispensary met the many claims upon it with unfailing accuracy. There were 34,258 attendances at the Out-patients’ Department including a large number of hand injuries. Through the co-operation of one of the Hon. Physicians a Speech Therapy clinic was started during the year. A qualified speech therapist attends, and the patients are usually those who have a defect of speech following some nerve disease. The Mildmay Mission Hospital has always extended its facilities to the various foreign Missionary Societies, and within B