Annual report : 1937 / Cumberland Infirmary Carlisle.

  • Cumberland Infirmary (Carlisle, England)
Date:
1937
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Credit: Annual report : 1937 / Cumberland Infirmary Carlisle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In the last Annual Report, it will be remembered that in this connection the Committee were awaiting the result of their application to the Commissioner for Special Areas for a grant towards the Infirmary’s extensions. As a result of their application, the Commissioner referred the plans to the Ministry of Health for consideration, and since that time they have been the subject of conferences between the Ministry, the Infirmary and the County and City Councils. As the result of an agreed policy arising out of these con¬ ferences, the original plans have undergone considerable change, and a revised scheme prepared, which was generally approved at a representative meeting of the Infirmary and the Local Authorities on the 12th January, 1938. The total estimated cost of the final scheme is £200,800, and it is hoped, in view of the fact that it has been drawn up in accordance with the view of experts from the Ministry of Health, that the Committee will receive an early and favour¬ able reply from the Commissioner for Distressed Areas to whom a renewed application has been made for a grant on the extended scheme. These plans will in effect increase the accommodation of the Cumberland Infirmary from 151 to 316 beds. Amongst other things there will be increased facilities for the treatment of general surgical and medical patients, a new children’s ward, providing for the isolation of cases in accordance with modern practice, a new boiler house, and extension to the laundry, and appropriate additions to the nurses’ home and domestic staff accommodation. Furthermore, as the direct outcome of the Infirmary’s co-operation with the Local Authorities in providing a base hospital competent to deal with every type of case needing specialist attention, a small proportion of the accommodation of the extended hospital will provide for certain statutory liabilities of the Local Authorities in respect to maternity, gynaecological and other types of cases. The Committee feel that the efforts they are making to cope with the ever increasing demand for an adequate and efficient hospital service will be appreciated by the people of Carlisle and Cumberland. They realise that the expendi¬ ture of the Infirmary will increase in proportion to its growth, but they hope that steps they are contemplating for increasing the income, which have already been adopted in most hospitals throughout the country, will, with the co-operation of the public, be equally successful in Cumberland, and relieve the Committee to a great extent of anxiety in this respect.