Annual report of the Board of Management of Adelaide Hospital with a list of subscriptions, donations, etc : 1918.

  • Adelaide Hospital (Adelaide, S. Aust.)
Date:
1918
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Credit: Annual report of the Board of Management of Adelaide Hospital with a list of subscriptions, donations, etc : 1918. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Localities from which cases of Enteric Fever were received—continued. 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 Semaphore .... 2 1 — — — 1 — — — — 1 Ships, Seamen, fm 3 — — — — 9 — 2 — 1 — Smithfield. — 1 - - — — — — — — _ — Stockade Reserve — — — — — — —. — i — Stepney. — — — — 1 — — — — — — Strathalbyn .... 1 — — — — — — — 1 — — Tailem Bend.... — — 1 — — — — — — — l Tea Tree Gully.. — — — — 2 — — 1 — — — Thebarton. — 1 1 — — i — — — 1 — Torrensville .... — — — -- — — 1 — — — — x ciixx kj j uaj , , , , - — - -— -— Unley . 2 1 — — — 1 1 1 1 — — Uraidla. — — — — — — — — 1 _ — Victor Harbor .. — — — — — — 1 — 2 1 — Walkerville .... — 1 2 — 2 — 1 1 2 1 — Wasleys . — — 1 — — — 1 — — — — Welland . — — — — — — — — — 3 — Westbourne Park — — — — — — — — 1 1 — Willaston. — — — — 1— 1 — — — — Williamstown ..262 1 1 1 — — — 1 — Wolseley . — — — — — — — 1 — — — Woodville.... — — — — — — 1 — 2 — 1 Yankalilla. — — — — — — — — — 1 — Yatala . — — 3 — 1 3 — — 1 2 1 Yorke Peninsula. 2 — — — — — — — — — 1 Outside State .. — — — — — — — — — — 1 Totals .... 72 71 64 52 64 105 27 66 86 59 34 The admissions of the above mentioned were distributed throughout the year as follows, viz. :— 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 January. 11 22 12 8 11 16 7 9 11 22 7 F ebruary 11 13 15 11 4 13 6 8 10 12 6 March . 3 11 10 8 7 19 12 16 13 4 6 April. 3 3 13 2 12 6 13 12 12 6 3 May . 10 5 4 8 7 19 18 10 2 3 7 June. 6 8 2 3 5 2 1 — 3 2 — Inly . 2 2 — — — 3 3 1 4 2 4 August. 2 2 — 2 4 3 — 1 5 I — September ... 5 1 1 1 4 1 1 2 5 2 — October. — 1 1 6 5 2 3 — 6 1 2 November.... 5 1 3 2 — 14 1 1 5 2 — December .... 14 2 3 1 5 7 7 6 10 2 — Mr. Alexander L. White, dental surgeon, attended to 107 cases of dentistry, including 47 anaesthetic cases. The return of prescriptions made up for other departments during the year is as follows, viz.: — Destitute Asylum . 3,244 Adelaide Gaol. 672 Consumptives’ Home. 4,317 Infectious Diseases Block. 3,353 Bacteriological Block (solutions, &c.) 271 State Children’s Department . 34 Total . 11,891 Report, 1918. The Board of Management was reappointed with the excep¬ tion of Dr. Poulton and the Hon. W. H. Harvey, M.L.C., whose places were taken by Col. W. T. Hayward, C.M.G., and J. P. Wilson, J.P., respectively. Mr. W. G. Coombs was unanimously reappointed Chairman, Colonel R. S. Rogers being reappointed as Deputy Chairman. The subcommittees (House, Finance, and Medical) were re¬ appointed, Col. Hayward taking the place of Dr. Poulton on the Medical Committee. The following honorary officers were reappointed for a fur¬ ther term of three years:—Dr. Harry Swift and Dr. E. A. Johnson (Physicians), Dr. R. E. Harrold (Skin), Dr. B. Poul¬ ton (Surgeon), Dr. G. A. Fischer (Aural), Dr. A. F. A. Lynch (Assistant Gynecologist), Dr. W. Ray (Radiographer), Mr. A. L. White (Dentist). The following officers who are away on active military service were also reappointed, namely:—Dr. W. R. Cavanagh-Mainwaring and Dr. H. S. Newland (Assistant Surgeons), Dr. T. G. Wilson (Gynaecologist). Drs. C. T. C. de Crespigny (who was promoted to a full Honorary Physician), Arthur Cudmore, and Bronte Smeaton returned from active military service abroad, but later on in the year again left on active military service. Drs. J. W. Browne and F. Steele Scott also returned from active military service and again took up their duties in the Hospital, the former being Medical Officer to the Infectious Diseases Block, and the latter as Assistant Sur¬ geon to the Hospital. Temporary Honorary Positions.—Drs. J. Corbin, H. Risch- bieth, and F. Steele Scott were reappointed as Assistant Sur¬ geons, Dr. J. W. Browne as Assistant Physician, and Drs. R. E. Magarey and F. M. Wilcox as Assistant Gynaecologists. Dr. E. V. R. Fooks was appointed Assistant Surgeon and Dr. Cecil Corbin as Assistant Gynaecologist. Medals for Nurses.—The following nurses passed first class in the examinations during their probationership and received each a gold medal:—Adelaide Hazel Cope, Frances Maud Gilpin, Irene Gladys Gooley, Ellen Margaret Inglis, Lucy Miriam Mead, Grace Evelyn Morphett, Magdalen Ann McCon- ville, Bessie Richardson Paltridge, and Annie Prince. Boards of Health and Infectious Diseases Block.—As there are boards of health still endeavoring to evade the responsi¬ bility for the payment of infectious cases coming from their district and treated in the Infectious Diseases Block, the whole matter was placed by the Board before the Government for review, and in reply to which the honorable the Minister stated that the question of an introduction of a Bill dealing with this matter will be considered in connection with the legislation to be introduced during next session. Beligion of Patients.—As there were grave signs of prosely¬ tising in the Adelaide Hospital, the matter was reviewed by the Board, when it was resolved that no clergyman or repre¬ sentative of any church be allowed for the future to hold any conversation with any patient unless that patient was a member or adherent of the church represented by the spiritual adviser. This embargo would not apply provided the visit is paid to patients who were personal friends before entering the institu¬ tion. The final arrangements made were that Anglicans and Roman Catholics will visit their own people only, and repre¬ sentatives of the Council of Churches will visit all other Pro¬ testant patients. Sympathetic references were made concerning the death of Dr. F. W. Niesche, who was for years a member of our honorary medical staff. Acting Assistant Surgeons, Gynaecologists, and Physicians.— The Board of Management decided that the time has arrived when these temporary appointments should be reviewed, and that instead of being as hitherto for an indefinite period they should all be of limited duration, say, for six months. The pre¬ sent temporary appointments should be terminated at as early a date as the Board may deem desirable, the vacancies be advertised, and applications solicited. From the applicants (whether they have been to the war or not, and whether they have previously held the positions or not) the Board should choose the most fit. These would serve for six months, when the posts would again become vacant, and be refilled as before. Some of the reasons for such an arrangement may be given. The present temporary appointments, owing to the protraction of the war, have already been unexpectedly long, and if not terminable till the end of the war, the term of service will have been more extended than if their holders had received ordinary appointments with the usual currency of three years. For the benefit of other men—even those who have not been to the war—these appointments should be of limited duration. If they remain of unlimited duration, and continue till the close of the war, they will give their holders an undue advantage as regards the prospective permanent appointments to be finally made. There may also be men soon returning, or who have