[Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Rye Borough.

  • Rye (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1947
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Credit: [Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Rye Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    -5- HJALTH SERVICES. Hos )i tals. Tie Rye, .'inchelsea and District Memorial Hospital in the Parish of Rye /oreign. The nearest large general hospital is the £oyal East Sussex Hospital at Hastings. /or maternity, the Hastings Municipal Hospital and ffwibank Maternity Home, Ola London Road, Hastings. Patients suffering from notifiable infectious diseases arc sent to the Hastings Borough Sanatorium. Insulin. In July,1943, the Borough Council, on the advice of the /inanco and executive Committee resolved that Insulin should be supplied at the recommendation of the Uadical Officer of Health to diabetics wtio are unable to afford it or who are unable to get it throu0h the Insurance Scheme, the Poor Law or the Education Act. Wo insulin was supplier. during 1947. Laboratories. Pathological s >v;cimens and samples for bacteriological investigation are sent to the Laboratory at the Royal East Sussex Hosdtal, Hastings; water samples etc., to the County Analyst, jj a Wes. Ambulance 3e r~~i ce. This service is staffed by volunt iry members of the St. John's Ambulance, who hav_ two motor ambulances at Rye. A rota of nurses and -.rivers is k-pt ana an ambulance is always available for accident ana re ioval cases. n scheme cor the free use of the ambulance is operatea tnd is avail abl ; to anyone laying an annual subscription of 2/6. The St. John's Ambulance also run a Medical Comforts Depot, from which articles required in tines of sickness can bo hirad for a small charge. .lat. r Supnly. Samples aro taken for 0 icteriologic il examination once a month and for cheaical examination once a quarter. Other samples are taken hen advisable. In 1947, thirty-six bacteriological samples (23 pre-chlorinated ana 13 post-chlorinated) and eight che iical samples (4 pre-chlori- nutea and 4 gost-chlorinated) were t .ken. .ill water supplied t^ consumers was satisfactory. The water is chloriiiitou. 60,760,000 gallons were supplied from the Cadborough Pumping Station and 13,165,000 from the Military Road Pumping Station, making a total of 73,925,000 gallons. This is approxi¬ mately 1% million gallons more than was pumped in the previous year. Of this .amount 5,229,300 gallons wore supplied in bulk to the Battle Rural District Council. This is just over half a million gallons more than was supplied in the previous year