Annual report : 1941 / Essex County Hospital, Colchester.

  • Essex County Hospital, Colchester.
Date:
1941
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report : 1941 / Essex County Hospital, Colchester. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Report of the Committee of Management For the Year ended 31st December, 1941 The Chairman and Members of the Committee of Management, in presenting their report for the year ended 31st December, 1941, beg to seek^the forbearance of Governors and Subscribers in as much as it has be£n necessary drastically to curtail this summary of their activities during the past year, and to omit from the published report the lists of subscribers and donors, in addition to several other usual features. It will be realised, however, that this decision represents a small national economy which will add to the Hos¬ pital’s ever increasing contribution to the war effort, and while lack of space may make it impossible clearly to depict the claims and needs of the Hospital, it is hoped that there might be a general recognition of the fact that the Hospital’s usefulness and power of healing have never been so great as at present, and it is only the beneficence of town and county that will ensure these are maintained and pressed forward, thus bringing untold benefits to the sick and injured. It is again possible to record a year of far-reaching development and astonishing progress. There was only one small reduction in activities, which was in the number of In-patients admitted, due to keeping, in accordance with the instructions of the Ministry of Health, a slightly larger number of beds available for war casualties, all other departments recorded larger numbers of cases : 1941. 1940. Number of In-patients admitted 3,126 3,237 Number of operations performed 3,947 3,716 Number of new Out-patients 10,703 10,612 Number of Out-patient Attendances .. 73,897 69,971 Number of Casualty Patients 3,333 3,002 Number of Pathological Examinations 4,850 1,235 The Committee’s financial policy has proved highly successful. The bank overdraft, which in 1938 reached the alarming figure of £18,349, has disappeared ; the capital which was realized in 1939 to reduce this overdraft has now been replaced ; the value of the Hos¬ pital’s lands and buildings has been increased by the purchase of