[Report 1927] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, Derbyshire County Council.

  • Derbyshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1927
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Credit: [Report 1927] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, Derbyshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES. Fever Hospitals.—-A Summary of tho accommodation at the various isolation hospitals in the Count}' was given in the Annual Report for 1926, see page 12. No material alterations have been made to any hospital. At Draycott, however, ]ilans have been submitted to the Mini.stry of Health and approved by them, for an extension in the form of a block of single-bedded cubicles. The erection of the Haddon Hospital is now approaching com- pletion and it is expected that the hospital will be ready for the reception of cases of infectious disease during 1928. The hospital is situated on the Monyash-Bakewell Road about a mile from Bakewell, and about 130 yards back from the road. The hospital and grounds occupy 3|^ acres and the hospital is com- posed of four main buildings, situated approximately at the corners of a square—the administrative block at the northern corner, laundry, mortuary, &c. at the eastern corner, a pavilion of 10 beds at the southern corner and an observation ward on the cubicle system for 6 cubicles at the western corner. The administrative block consists of a two-storey building with two attic bedrooms. On the ground floor is a nurses’ room, matron’s room, doctor’s room, kitchen, scullery, &c. On the first floor are 7 single bed rooms with bath room and water closet. The 10-bedded pavilion consists of two wards, one of 4 beds and one of 6 beds, with administration quarters between them. Over the administration quarters there is a second floor containing a large emergency room. A caretaker’s cottage has also been erected. Table III. gives a Summary of the Expenses at each Hospital, and Table IV. shows the number of cases of infectious diseases notified in the various Hospital Committee’s areas and the number removed to hospitals. The conditions under w'hich the County Council gives grants towards the establishment expenses of Isolation Hospitals are set out in the Annual Report for 1925, pages 12 and 13. Smallpox Hospital Accommodation.—(See Survey Report for 1925, pages 15 & 16). Tuberculosis.—Three hospitals for the accommodation of cases of tuberculosis occurring within the County are maintained by the County Council, namely :— 1. Walton Sanatorium. 2. Penmore Pavilion. 3. Bretby Hall Orthopeedic Hospital. Further information concerning these in.stitutions will be found on reference to pages 72-99.