[Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Chesterfield Borough.

  • Chesterfield (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1905
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Credit: [Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Chesterfield Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Oie case was attributable to direct or sickroom infection; one to direct infection outside the district ; one to importation from a neighbouring district, while the c.iusation of twelve was unknown. One specimen of blood sent to the bacteriological laboratory at Birmingham University gave negative results. Hospital Accommodation.—This is provided at Newbold and Penmore Hospital by the Chesterfield Joint Hospital Committee which consists of representatives of the Brampton and Walton, Newbold and Dunston, and Whittington Urban Councils and the Corporation of Chesterfield. Newbold Hospital for smallpox patients has 11 beds in each of the two wards, one of which has red glass windows. There is a small administration block, wash-house aud mortuary. It is supplied with water by public service and has a small but sufficient sewage disposal works. Penmore Hospital affords accommodation for 16 scarlet fever patients in four wards, two of which are single bed wards reserved for paying and special patients ; for 10 enteric fever patients in two wards of 4 and 6 beds each ; while the isolation block has 4 beds in three wards for patients who require to be kept under observation. The scarlet fever block has a large “sun room” for the use of convalescent children during the day in unfavourable weather. There is also an administrative block, a steam laundry, disinfecting apparatus, discharging rooms, ambulance and bedding-van sheds, stable and mortuary. Particulars of the number of patients sent to the hospitals are given in Table III. Tw7enty-five of the smallpox patients were treated at Newbold Hospital ; four diphtheria patients, who underwent the operation of tracheotomy, at the Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Hospital ; and 40