[Report 1960] / Medical Officer of Health, Oswestry Borough.
- Oswestry (England). Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1960
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1960] / Medical Officer of Health, Oswestry Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![A!.IBULANCE SERVICE Under the Rational Health Service Act, 1946, it became the duty of the County Council, the local health authority, to make provisions for securing that ambulances and other means of transport are available for » the conveyance of persons suffering from illness or mental defectiveness and expectant mothers or nursing mothers, from places in their area to places in or outside their area, LABORiiTORY FACILITIES Laboratory facilities are available at the Public Health Laboratory, Royal Salop Infirmary, Shrewsbury, The Bacteriologist is Dr. A. C. Jones, the Pathologist, Dr. G. Grant. This service undertakes work for local authorities free of charge in so far as it is relevant to diagnosis. It is invaluable particularly in the expeditious dealing with the bacteriological examination of food samples. HATIOHAL BLOOD ].RANSFUSIOH .3J]RVICE The following figures, kindly supplied by Miss Beresford of the Shrewsbury office, include donors resident in the Oswestry Rural District, Attended Bled 264 250 Public spirited members of the community continue to supx^ort the twice yearly sessions but new volunteers are constantly needed to keep pace v/ith the ever increasing demand for blood transfusion as a part of Hospital treatment. 25](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29940229_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
