[Report 1912] / Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow.

  • Glasgow (Scotland)
Date:
1912
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    Sanatoria Hospitals and Country Homes, &c. Int. Report (p. 15). The cost of these institutions, it is stated, should not exceed £150 a bed, including site. In the recently erected Sanatorium at Ipswich the cost was about £250 a bed, exclusive of site, but including furnishings at fully £18 a bed, and 1 doubt whether the estimate in the report can be realised when it is not solely a question of adding beds to existing institutions. The Report (p. 27, par. 2), however, might be read to suggest that grants in aid of building will be refused if §- of the total cost per bed exceeds £90. Sanatorium Staff. The medical staff recommended in the Report for each unit of 200 hospital or sanatorium beds, includes 1 medical superintendent and 2 assistants. The superin- tendent to have a salary of £500 with house, and with prospects of increase. As requiring early attention in the development of the scheme, attention should, I think, be given in the first place— (1) to the provision of new dispensary premises. (2) to pressing forward the provision of hospital and County Home accommodation. It seems also desirable that the committee should get into early touch with the Provisional Insurance Committee. A. K. CHALMERS. Sanitary Chambers, Olasgow, 27th June, 1912. *