[Report 1945] / Medical Officer of Health, Reading County Borough.

  • Reading (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1945
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Credit: [Report 1945] / Medical Officer of Health, Reading County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    applying for allowances under the scheme, and for routine revision of financial circumstances. The chairman of the Relief Sub-Committee (Alderman T. S. Smart) has attended each week to authorise payments being made in the intervals between meetings of the sub-committee. Christmas Gifts. The usual gifts in kind were made to patients named by recommendation of the Tuberculosis Visitors, and a grant of CIO was spent by the Matron at Park hospital. Miss A. Weir, on personal gifts and ward decorations for patients in the tuberculosis pavilions. Books and magazines have been received at the hospital in response to an appeal through the local press by Alderman T. S. Smart, for the benefit of those patients in the tuberculosis wards who are able to sit up and read and do light work. Nursing Appliances for bed-ridden tuberculous patients. By reason of the lengthy periods such appliances are in use, the Superintendent of the Queen Victoria Institute for District Nursing in Reading, Miss Carden, asked the committee to make special provision for those patients. The request was approved, and it was resolved that a sum of £25 may be spent for this purpose. SCABIES. The treatment of scabies at first-aid posts was, with the exception of one depot, discontinued in December, 1944. Arrange¬ ments were made to continue these treatments at specially arranged clinics at Whitley clinic and Battle hospital. The following table shows the number of patients dealt with during the year:— Women and Children Men and Boys Whitley Clinic 92 — Battle Hospital 350 149 Silver Street First-Aid Post until 5/5/45 72 13 514 162 VACCINATION. The number of children successfully vaccinated during the year was 1,005 or 34 per cent of all births occurring in the borough during the year 1944, a distinct improvement on the results obtained in previous years. Details as follows :—