[Report 1931] / Medical Officer of Health, Stirling County Council.

  • Stirlingshire (Scotland). County Council.
Date:
1931
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Credit: [Report 1931] / Medical Officer of Health, Stirling County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IV.—HOSPITALS. In my annual report for 1930, I gave a full account of the hospital accommodation within the County. Since the end of the year I may say that the County Council have approved of the erection of two new sectioned pavilions at Bannockburn Hospital as recommended in my report, on the understanding that the small hospitals at Grangemouth and Kilsyth be eventually discontinued and the properties disposed of in due course. The County Council also gave notice, in terms of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1929, of their intention to resign from the Joint Hospital Boards in connection with the Burghs’ Fever Hospital at Kildean, the Burghs’ Smallpox Hospital at Taylorton, and the Lennox Fever Hospital near Milton of Campsie, the resignations to take effect as from the 16th May, 1932. The Department of Health have this year issued forms (Hospitals Form I.) on which a return was requested giving all available information with regard to each County hospital. These forms were duly completed and returned, but it will be sufficient to give here merely the statistics as set forth in the forms. These were as undernoted : —• Bannockburn Hospital, by Stirling (Infectious Disease;. A. —In-Patients. 1. Total number of admissions 2. Total number of patients discharged ... 3. Total number of deaths ... 4. Average duration of stay of patients ... 5. Number of beds occupied— (a) Average during year (ft) Highest, 49, on 6/10/31. (c) Lowest, 21, on 17/3/31. 6. Number of surgical operations— (a) Under general or spinal anaesthesia (b) Other operations B. —Out-Patients. 1. Total number of persons seen in out- patient department 2. Total number of attendances 254 249 4 47 davs. 52 33 7 0 ... 1301