[Report 1939] / Medical Officer of Health, Woking U.D.C.

  • Woking (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1939
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Credit: [Report 1939] / Medical Officer of Health, Woking U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are situated at Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, and the clinics attached to the London Hospitals. Mental cases are received at the Surrey County Mental Hospital, Brookwood. Admissions to Ottershaw Isolation Hospital The following table shows the number of cases admitted to the Ottershaw Isolation Hospital during 1939:— Scarlet Fever 27 cases Diphtheria 9 „ Enteric Fever 2 „ Other Diseases 27 w ' > > Total . . 65 cases MATERNITY—WOKING MATERNITY HOME AND NURSING ASSOCIATION.—An excellent Maternity Home, with 25 beds, is maintained by the Woking Health Society in Oriental Road, and money is being raised to bring this institution up-to-date: 518 patients were admitted during 1939, as compared with 483 in 1938, all of whom were maternity cases; 360 were delivered by midwives and 158 by doctors. The average duration of stay was 14 days. Two hundred and thirty-four were admitted from the Woking District. The County Council contributed to the maintenance of 290 patients during the year. Grants are also obtained from the Ministry of Health. Cases are admitted from all parts of the County and 9 cases of Puerperal Pyrexia were from outside the Urban District. Ante-natal and post-natal clinics are held in the afternoons of the first and third Tuesday in the month and every Friday afternoon. The Medical Officer attends the Tuesday clinics. The following operations were carried out at the home:— Caesarean Section, 27. The Home was approved by the Central Midwives’ Board as a training school for midwives in October 1927 and 6 nurses were trained and passed the Examination of the Central Midwives’ Board during the year. The pupils attend the County Council Clinic for infant welfare and ante-natal experience in addition to the training actually provided at the