Reports and statistical tables relating to the Storthes Hall Hospital Hospital Kirkburton : 1949 / Storthes Hall Group Hospital Management Committee (Group No. 12) (Leeds Regional Hospital Board)..

  • Storthes Hall Group Hospital Management Committee.
Date:
1949
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Credit: Reports and statistical tables relating to the Storthes Hall Hospital Hospital Kirkburton : 1949 / Storthes Hall Group Hospital Management Committee (Group No. 12) (Leeds Regional Hospital Board).. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    COPY OF THE REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE BOARD OF CONTROL STORTHES HALL HOSPITAL NEAR KIRK BURTON 13th April, 1949. At our visit to this Hospital the effects of the out¬ standing handicaps of overcrowding on both sides, the extreme shortage of female nursing staff and to a lesser extent though material shortage of the male nursing staff, were noticeable in nearly every department. In fact we can say that progress in any direction has and is being governed in particular by the shortage of nursing staff. The number of medical staff, which will be referred to later, is also small. The Hospital is a particularly large one there being 2,941 (1,224 M., 1,717 F.) patients in residence. Overcrowding at this Hospital still remains serious on both sides: according to the figures placed before us there is a deficiency of accommodation by day for 226 men and 357 women, and by night for 292 and 369 respectively. In some cases the overcrowding and its consequent handicap to classification was more noticeable than these figures might lead one to believe. This Hospital still has on its books 232 female patients from Bracebridge Heath Mental Hospital and 175 (134 M., 41 F.) from Wadsley Mental Hospital. Throughout our visit, especially when bearing in