[Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Woking U.D.C.

  • Woking (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1925
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Credit: [Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Woking U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    *3 tional staff accommodation, also a new Casualty Depart¬ ment and new X-ray room. There are now 24 beds in the general wards, and 3 private wards of one bed each. A children’s ward of 12 beds in a temporary building- is also now open. The total number of in-patients admitted during 1925 was 452, out-patients treated 803, of which 553 were casualty cases. Any Institutional Provision for Unmarried Mothers, Illegitimate Infants and Homeless Children in the District. There is a small but well organised Maternity Home for unmarried mothers living in Woking, etc., in Ferndale Road, which is maintained by the Winchester Diocesan Union for Preventive and Rescue Work. Seventy-six cases cases were dealt with during 1925, viz., 61 girls and 15 babies. These included 17 expectant mothers, 15 mothers with babies, 16 Rescue cases and 13 Preventive cases. Twenty-two of the cases were from Woking and Horsell. The mothers and babies are, whenever possible, sent to Mothers’ and Babies’ Hostels, and, when this cannot be arranged, the girls are placed in situations and the babies with foster-mothers in the same locality. Whilst in the Home the girls receive instruction in mothercraft, etc., and practical training in housewifery. Help is given to girls brought by the police or reported to them from other sources, and also to girls who are unwilling or unable to come into the Home. Ambulance Facilities. — (a) For infectious cases. The Joint Hospital Board’s Motor Ambulance removes the cases to the Fever Hospital. N»» (b) For non-infectious and accident cases. A motor