Report of the Committee of Management and Medical Director : 1944 / Papworth Village Settlement.

  • Papworth Village Settlement (Cambridge, England)
Date:
1944
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Management and Medical Director : 1944 / Papworth Village Settlement. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT FOR THE YEAR 1944 THE Committee are glad to report that during the year 1944 there has been no falling off in the work of the Settlement in its endeavours to provide a com¬ prehensive scheme for the treatment of the tuberculous. The number of patients in residence has remained at a high level ; the admissions of patients for treatment have exceeded those of previous years, and still greater advantage has been taken during the year of the specialized treatment provided by the Nelson- Langermann Surgical Hospital. De¬ spite these increases, however, our waiting lists are as long as ever. The Settlement has continued to provide satisfactory employment both in the Industries and in the Institution for patients of both sexes, and in this respect the Committee has to report an increasing demand for the rehabilitation of nurses who have been struck down with tuberculosis, the Queen Mary House having been fully occupied throughout the year. The new X-ray department in the Bernhard Baron Hospital for men was completed during the year, and has already proved of inestimable value to our medical staff. Its equipment has been increased by the loan of a portable ward unit by the British Red Cross Society, to whom the Committee are most grateful, not only for this loan, but for the help so freely given to our patients from the Services. Two pairs of houses have been completed and occupied during the year ; a small but very welcome contribution to our housing problem. Other work completed or in progress includes the extension to the Sims Woodhead Memorial Laboratory and the provision of a tarmac road to serve the Bernhard Baron Hospital and the Nelson-Langermann Hospital. The Committee now contemplate, on the recommendation of the Medical Consultative Committee, the complete re-building of the South Park Sana¬ torium for men to replace the open- air chalets. This is now an urgent need, as most of the chalets were constructed as far back as 1919. The water mains installed by the Settlement in 1928 from Bourn Reservoir to the village were formally transferred to the Chesterton Rural District Council, following the forma¬ tion of the new Joint Water Board, the agreement originally made with the East Hunts. Water Co. having expired. The agreements with the Hunts and Cambs. County Councils for the reservation of beds at Papworth also expired during the year, and negotia¬ tions are now in progress for a continuance of the service which Papworth renders to these two counties in the treatment of tuber¬ culosis. The Committee agreed to adopt the Hetherington Report in respect of domestic workers in hospitals, and were glad to note that as a result very little revision was needed in the wage scales already in force at Papworth. It was hoped that the adoption of the Report would bring about some amelioration of the staff shortage, but this has not proved to be the case and there would [3]