[Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, St Albans Urban Sanitary District & Rural Sanitary District.

  • St. Albans (England). Urban Sanitary District.
Date:
1896
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Credit: [Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, St Albans Urban Sanitary District & Rural Sanitary District. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    average 40 patients. She has during that time hardly ever left the precincts of the Hospital, and has worked day and night, not sparing herself in her anxiety that the patients should be properly attended to. She has also managed the Hospital in a most economical and efficient manner. In April, the Committee thought it desirable to erect two partitions with doors in the corridor of the Hospital, in order to divide the building into three separate parts, with the view of being able to isolate Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria from each other, or from any other Infectious Disease which might be admitted. Early last summer it was found that the Disinfector (a hot air chamber) was out of repair and useless. Ever since that time we have been without any disinfecting apparatus. I would earnestly urge the Committee to lose no more time in providing a Washington Lyons or other Steam Disinfector, in the interests of true economy, as well as efficiency. In the end of the year, owing to the great increase of work, and in order to be able to look after the patients in a more satisfactory manner, it was decided to engage the services of a permanent Charge Nurse, and a Probationer. It is a great pity that the Small-pox Hospital had to be erected so near the main buildiilg. I cannot but think that the admission of patients there might be attended with some considerable risk to patients in the Hospital suffering from other diseases, and I can only hope that it will not be long before the Committee can see their way to provide a separate Hospital for Small-pox. or at any rate a block removed a considerable distance from the other buildings. I am, Gentlemen, Your most obedient Servant, JOHN MORISON, M.D., D.P.H., Medical Superintendent.