Annual report : 1927 / Cardiff Royal Infirmary.

Cardiff Royal Infirmary (Cardiff, Wales)

Date:: 1927

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Credit: Annual report : 1927 / Cardiff Royal Infirmary. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Enquiry fiW Department Much useful work has been done in this department, which deals with everything relating to patients’ contributions towards their maintenance whilst in the institution. Miss Morgan has gradually extended the sphere of her activities, so that now she is interviewing not only In-Patients, but casualties and Out-Patients also. Her work is essentially that of an almoner, and by her assiduity, discretion, and tact, she has put her department on a sound and permanent basis. By referring to the annual accounts, it will be seen how she has succeeded in augmenting the income from the specific sources mentioned above. Additions and Im¬ provements. It is impossible, in the space at my disposal, to give more than an outline of the various additions and improvements that have been effected during the year. In the first place, I should like to mention the improvement that has been carried out in the Aural Out-Patient Department. With the increasing work in the department, it was found necessary to remove the partition wall between the examination room and the dark room. This gave a valuable increase of space in which to work, and by con¬ verting the old sterilizing room into a dark room and by adding a small partition in the main hall, the department was made much more convenient for working in. Dr. Beatty, who is in charge of the Dermatological Department, found himself handicapped by the lack of a room in which to administer treatment. It was found possible to allocate to him a room in the main corridor, which after fitting out according to his requirements, has been of the greatest possible use to him in his treatment of patients. The X-Ray Department has been brought up-to-date by the installation of developing and washing tanks, which have improved results and turnover to a great extent. Further improvements were made possible by the kind action of the 38th Welsh Divisional Artillery, who gave us a new X-Ray couch, complete with all modern accessories, including the latest type of X-Ray tubes. They have given this as a memorial to the officers and men of the Welsh Artillery who gave their lives in the Great War, and the couch bears an inscription to that effect. We have also to thank Mr. H. L. Sheen, a brother of Professor A. W. Sheen, for the gift of a Coolidge X-Ray tube. The treatment side of the department has also been brought up-to-date by the reconstruction of the treatment room and the gift of a new switch-board, for which we are indebted to the Cardiff District Union of the National British Women’s Total Abstinence Union. To make space for our stationery stock, a new storeroom for the Dispensary was erected through the kindness of our Chairman, Sir William Diamond, thus releasing the old Dispensary store. The new storeroom, which occupies a part of the waiting room for Out-Patients, has made it possible to centralize the dispensary stores to a much greater extent than was previously possible.