[Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, North Riding of Yorkshire County Council.

  • North Riding of Yorkshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1925
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Credit: [Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, North Riding of Yorkshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ambulance facilities are provided by the various Sanitary Authorities for the removal of fever patients. Facilities for non-infectious cases are very complete in the County, and are supplied under arrangements made by the British Red Cross Society—ambulances are available and stationed in the following places :— South Bank Scalby Guisborough Ryedale Whitby Northallerton Malton Richmond Carlin How Clinics and Treatment Centres are described under the appropriate headings of the report. ISOLATION HOSPITALS. Speaking generally the remarks made in previous reports hold good to-day—certain of the smaller local authorities who do not possess their own, or in combination with other authorities. Isolation Hospital accommodation, have made arrangements with neighbouring authorities for the treatment of the infectious sick, but considering the County as a whole there is need for further accommodation^—there are certain areas with no accommodation or arrangements whatever for the isolation of the infectious sick including smallpox ; although it would not be an economic proposition that such small authorities should erect a hospital, it is proper to suggest that steps should be taken to establish joint hospitals—adequate to the needs of the districts. The utility of an isolation hospital is not sufficiently recognised ; although local authorities provide, free of cost, supplies of anti-toxin, and facilities for bacteriological examination of suspected material, isolation in hospital is also needed as a means of limiting the spread of infectious disease, further, more particularly in the rural areas where good water supplies are not always available, the isolation and treatment in hospital of certain infectious diseases is a real safeguard against the spread which may follow contamination of water, and also milk supplies. The isolation hospital accommodation in the County at the end of the year was as follows ;— Districts which have provided Isolation Hospitals ;— Urban.—Eston, Guisborough, Loftus, Masham, Northallerton, Redcar, Richmond, Saltburn, Scarborough, Skelton, Whitby. Rural.—Aysgarth, Bedale, Guisborough, Northallerton, Startforth, Thirsk, Wath, Whitby. Districts which have arrangements with neighbouring Authorities :— Urban.—Scalby, Thornaby, Kirklington. Rural.—Croft, Flaxton, Middlesbrough, Richmond, Scarborough, Stokesley, Easingwold, Leyburn. Districts which have no arrangements :— Urban.—Hinderwell, Malton, Pickering. Rural.—Helmsley, Kirbymoorside, Malton, Pickering, Reeth. Public Health Staff. The County Medical Officer acts also as School Medical Officer and Medical Officer to the Committee for the Care of the Mentally Defective. Dr. Cheetham (part time). Assistant County Medical Officer, undertakes the work of the Supervision of the Mid wives. Dr. J. J. Thomson, O.B.E. (whole time). Clinical Tuberculosis Officer and Medical Superintendent of Morris Grange Children’s Sanatorium. Dr. C. R. Gibson (part time). Assistant Tuberculosis Officer, in charge of the Skelton- in-Cleveland Tuberculosis Dispensary. Dr. S. Fox Linton (part time). Assistant Tuberculosis Officer, in charge of the Scar¬ borough Tuberculosis Dispensary. Health Visitors. Nurse. District. A. Murray ..South Bank. L. Robinson . .South Bank. M. E. Campbell, c.m.b. Grangetown. E. Croft ..Eston. M. Green, c.m.b. . .Loftus. Nurse. District. N. Dunford ..Redcar. A. Ruddock, c.m.b. . .Guisborough. A. Loftus, C.M.B. ..Skelton. A. Garthwaite, c.r.S.1. Saltburn. E. Patchett, C.M.B. ..Hinderwell. The duties of the Nursing Staff are co-ordinated, and almost all are engaged on work in connection with School Nursing, Health Visiting and other Public Health work. In addition there are some 38 district nurses who act as part time School Nurses and Health Visitors. A salary contribution from either the Board of Education or the Ministry of Health is received in respect of each officer and nurse. Professional Nursing in the Home. Apart from a grant made to the Stockton and Thornaby District Nursing Association in respect of the home nursing of tuberculous cases no arrangements have been made for the nursing of cases of illness in the home.