[Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Halifax County Borough.

  • Halifax (England). County Borough Council. nb2008024085.
Date:
1925
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Credit: [Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Halifax County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    About two-thirds of the occupied beds are usually filled by Halifax cases, the others being let off to patients sent by the Lancashire County Council, West Riding County Council, and other authorities. iThe wards for intermediate or advanced cases are usually fully occupied, but difficulty occurs in sectoring suitable early cases for the shelters. Very advanced cases which cannot safely be nursed at home and which cannot be permanently housed at the Sanatorium, are usually ad- mitted to St. Luke’s Hospital, under the care of the Guardians. Dr. Taylor, the Tuberculosis Officer, resides at the Sanatorium. In addition the staff consists of the Matron (Miss Davidson), 2 sisters, i staff nurse, 3 probationers, 5 maids, and 2 men (porter and gardener). For some months in 1925, during the illness of Dr. Taylor, it became necessary to employ temporary medical assistance, and the Committee was fortunate in being able to secure the services of Dr. Elenora J. Howie, who con- ducted thto work at the Dispensary and the Sanatorium in a manner which gave complete satisfaction to all concerned. The Tuberculosis Scheme also includes the Bermerside Residential Home. Here the Health Committee has a call on ten beds for children, but as “ open ” cases of tuber- culosis are not admitted, nor any patients who are really ill, the function of this Institution in the Tuberculosis Scheme must be regarded as that of providing accommoda- tion for children in the pre-tuberculous stage, such ias “contacts” who are anaemic or debilitated. As such, the Institution has a place in the scheme, but it does not provide the Tuberculosis Officer with beds for children suffering from tuberculosis, and this want is not filled, nor has any means of filling it yet been found, in spite |of earnest consideration by the Committee. A scheme for the supervision of tuberculous cripples (ana more particularly children suffering from forms of tuberculosis liable to cause crippling unless' treated has been considered jointly with the Education and Maternity and Child Welfare Committees, and the formation of an Orthopaedic Clinic was proceeded with during the year. Anticipating that this would be associated with in-patient treatment in a recognised hospital-school for orthopaedic cases, one such case was sent to Kirby Moorside Hospital during the year. Another, an adult, was sent to the Shropshire Orthopaedic Hospital.