[Report 1939] / Medical Officer of Health, Ashington U.D.C.

  • Ashington (Northumberland, England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1939
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Credit: [Report 1939] / Medical Officer of Health, Ashington U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Other Medical Practitioners• Other Medical Practitioners• Pos • Cerehro- Spinal Fever Cerebro- . - Spinal Fiuid. Miscellaneous Fluids includ-.. ing Pus• Neg. 1 5 Total. 1 5 BACTERIOLOGICAL 'EXAMINATION RESULTS. DURING (Infectious THE YEAR, Diseases - 1939. Hospital .) Sent in by Swabs for Swabs for Virulence M.O.H. C • Diphtheria. Haemolytic Streptoccus. Tests Morphological G.Diphtheria© As Physician in charge of Pos. Neg. Pos • Neg. Pos. Neg. Hospital. 509 522 239 197 23 3 Totals. 509 522 1031 239 197 436 23 3 26 Ambulance Facilities. Three motor ambulances for non-infectious and accident cases and a fourth for infectious cases are available in the area. Nursing in the Home, The same nursing facilities described in previous reports have been continued during 1939 praotically without change,, Tr>°tmont. Centres and Clinics. All treatment centres and clinics as previously indicated in earlier reports. ~ Hospitals. The Ashington Hospital is a voluntary hospital within the Urban District. Accommodation for 26 males and 14 females, and three children. Outside the Ashington Urban Area, further hospital services can be obtained at all of the large hospitals in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, twenty miles distant. MATERNITY'AND CHILD WELFARE. Maternity and -Child Welfare Clinics were held in the M.C.W. building in South View.- Sessions 99 from 2-4 p.m. Monday and Thursday afternoons throughout the year.