[Report 1913] / Medical Officer of Health, Sherborne U.D.C. / Town.

  • Sherborne (Dorset, England). Town Council.
Date:
1913
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Credit: [Report 1913] / Medical Officer of Health, Sherborne U.D.C. / Town. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    room for nurses. A second building accommodates the ambulance and steam disinfector, the water tank being placed in its roof. The third building comprised laundry, larder and mortuary. The hospital is provided with a well from which water is pumped by manual labour. During the year the accommodation was found insufficient and more corrugated iron and wood buildings were erected. A disused building, capable of containing comfortably eight beds was purchased from the Governors of the Sherborne School for Girls. Four new buildings were also obtained: one suitable for three beds, and the other three each for a single bed, intended for the use of nurses. Several improvements were carried out in the main building, and another mortuary Avas provided, the former one being free for other purposes. The cost of all these improA'ements has been borne by the Urban District, and has been defrayed out of the general district rate. The hospital is not suitable for the accommodation of more than one disease concurrently, but owing to the im¬ possibility of obtaining proper home isolation it was found necessary to admit tAvo cases of scarlet feA'er during the year. The number of patients treated at the hospital in the year 1913 was 76, of Avhom 15 Avere residents in the Rural District. Four deaths took place, one being that of a Rural patient. Tuberculosis. Notified cases are visited by the Medical Officer of Health and Sanitary Inspector. Disinfectants are supplied gratis, and disinfection of premises undertaken. / Prevention of Infant Mortality. There are three certificated midwives resident in Sherborne. Twelve deaths were recorded of children under one year of age.