Annual report : 1941 / Bristol Royal Hospital for Sick Children and Women.

  • Bristol Royal Hospital for Sick Children and Women.
Date:
1941
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Credit: Annual report : 1941 / Bristol Royal Hospital for Sick Children and Women. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Annual Report, 1941. IN presenting the 76th Annual Report of the work of the Bristol Royal Hospital for Sick Children and Women, the Committee record a year of service under most difficult conditions. Owing to enemy action the damage done to the building and the fear that such action might be repeated it was con¬ sidered unsafe to use the upper floors of the Hospital, so that patients have only been admitted to the ground floor wards since February, 1941. But even so 497 patients have been received into these wards. By arrangement with the Bristol Royal Hospital it was agreed to discontinue the admission of women in order to use what accommodation was available for children, but even this proved insufficient for the number requiring treatment. By collaboration with the Emergency Medical Service a large school at Weston-super-Mare, called Eastern House, was requisitioned and fitted for non-operative cases and has proved of the greatest service. No fewer than 146 cases have been treated there during the year, and it is proposed to retain this Hospital annexe for the war period as an auxiliary to the Bristol Children's Hospital. The out-patient buildings were destroyed completely and this has entailed the out-patient service being carried on in the main building with considerable inconvenience and some congestion, but yet with efficiency. These conditions have created enormous difficulties for the Matron and staff and the Committee record their gratitude to and their admiration of Miss Ellis, who with conspicuous success has carried out the Herculean task of superintending the organisation and equipment of Eastern House and after it was opened for the reception of patients has managed that Branch in addition to the Hospital in Bristol, where the difficulties of shortage of staff have been almost insurmount¬ able. They wish therefore to record their very sincere