Annual report of the Devon Mental Hospital Management Committee for the year 1952 : Exminster Hospital, Digby Hospital, Wonford Hospital.

  • Devon Mental Hospital Management Committee
Date:
[1953?]
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Credit: Annual report of the Devon Mental Hospital Management Committee for the year 1952 : Exminster Hospital, Digby Hospital, Wonford Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    after its military occupation, received promotion to Group Engineer at St. David’s Hospital, Carmarthen, and was succeeded by Mr. D. Gibson. I cannot commend too highly the help I have received from my Deputy, Dr. Scott. General I do not wish to repeat the detail which is contained in the very helpful report of the Commissioner of the Board of Control of the lltli February, 1953, to which I again call attention. More and more does it become apparent that the limits of a Mental Hospital these days are the limits of its ground floor accommodation. A hospital is full when there is no ground floor bed for a new patient. I thank you then, for the continued support you have given me in attempts to find temporary solutions for the more urgent problems: (a) in making available ground floor accommodation for elderly patients. (b) in the relief of overcrowding. (c) in the improvement of the Training School. Permanent solutions will be found only in new buildings ; simple structures of the bungalow type adjacent to and serviced from the main Hospital. Yours faithfully, JOHN RUSSELL, Medical Superintendent.
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