Annual report for the year ending 31st December, 1957 / St. Andrew's Hospital, Thorpe, Norwich.

  • St. Andrew's Hospital (Thorpe, England)
Date:
[1958?]
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Credit: Annual report for the year ending 31st December, 1957 / St. Andrew's Hospital, Thorpe, Norwich. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ENDOWMENT ACCOUNT This account is sustained mainly by contributions from the Income of the central Hospitals Endowments Fund received from the Ministry of Health and the Regional Hospital Board. These contributions totalled £1,454 10s. Od. in the current year. Apart from maintaining a reasonable working balance, this account was devoted to the provision of amenities to patients and, to a small extent, to staff during the year. A number of donations, including one of £25 were received from former patients and their relatives. The Friends of the Norwich Hospitals generously made a grant of £100 towards the cost of providing and equipping a hairdressing saloon for female patients. They also gave £10 for the provision of sports prizes for patients and £25 for patients’ Christmas presents. A donation of £75 was received from the Norfolk and Suffolk Contributors’ Association for patients’ Christmas amenities. In October the Regional Hospital Board made a grant of £601 from their endowment funds. Of this sum £198 was utilised for the purchase of new tables and ciiairs for the female hospital canteen, and £120 is to be spent on providing wooden garden seats for the cricket field, bowling green and two ward gardens. Proposals for the use of the balance of the grant are under active consideration. WORKS DEPARTMENT The following is a summary of the more important works carried out during the year ;— By Contract:— New baths, wash-basins and improvements to sanitary arrangements, ground and first floors. Nurses’ Home. Re-slating and repairing section of roofs at Female Hospital. Installation of new diesel-driven standby electric generating set. Resurfacing part of the estate roads and ward garden paths. New hot-water main to Laundry and Nurses’ Home. Cubicle bed-curtains installed in female Ward 10. External re-painting—Male Hospital. By Direct Labour:— Conversion of former medical officer’s flat in main administrative block into residential accommodation for senior female nursing staff. Conversion of former workroom into offices for Matron, Assistant Matrons and Social Worker. Replacement and extension of hot-water radiators in the following depart¬ ments of the Male Hospital:— Ward H. Occupational Therapy. Workshops. Canteen. Administrative block.