[Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Liverpool City.

  • Liverpool (England). City Council.
Date:
1898
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Credit: [Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Liverpool City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The great bulk of the land within the half-mile radius is still agricultural, but within this radius would fall a small section of the Everton and Kirkdale Cemetery, and a section of the cutting of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. The Fazakerley Cottage Homes are upwards of a quarter of a mile distant from the coniines of the site which has been purchased. YV ith regard to the much-needed extension and improvement of the accommodation for patients and attendants at the City Hospital East, plans have been submitted to the Local Government Board for the proposed addition ot 8# beds tor patients, and for the accommodation of the increased staff consequent upon this extension. Ihe present number of beds available for the various forms of infectious sickness is as follows :— City Hospital North ... South ... East Bark hill Priory Road J? 147 beds. 88 42 16b 67 V 5 5 480 These are apportioned as follows :— Smallpox Typhus Fever ... Typhoid Fever Scarlet Fever ... Diphtheria Isolation 87 beds. 20 75 288 30 „ 30 „ 480 making a total of 480 beds, about 100 of which are in buildings of a temporary character, which are practically worn out, and at no distant date will require to be taken down.