[Report 1930] / Medical Officer of Health, Plymouth Borough.

  • Plymouth (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1930
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Credit: [Report 1930] / Medical Officer of Health, Plymouth Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In this hospital there is a block allocated to the treatment of Venereal Diseases under the scheme of the Municipality. The hospital is administered by a Voluntary Committee. Further details are given in Table 19. The Central Hospital is in Lockyer Street, near the centre of the City. It has 50 beds-and receives medical and surgical cases. It is administered by a Voluntary Committee. Further details are given in Table 19. The Royal Albert Hospital is situated in Devonport and contains 60 beds. Again, it is a general hospital, and is administered by a Voluntary Committee. Plans are nearing completion when the amalgamation of these three hospitals will be accomplished. It is hoped that these three amalgamated hospitals will then be administered more economically and that a real classification of patients may be possible as between the three institutions. Incidentally, I can only hope that this unification will make it more easy to conduct negotiations between the hospitals and the Health Department ; for it is always more simple to deal with one authority rather than three. The Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital has already amalgamated with the South Devon and East Cornwall Hospital. The Eye Infirmary is situated at Mutley. It has 28 beds and is administered by a Voluntary Committee. Municipal Hospitals. There are three Municipal Hospitals in the City— namely, the City Hospital, Mount Gold Hospital, and Swilly Hospital. There is the Hospital Ship Flamingo in the Port Sanitary Area ; and there are three other Municipal Hospitals outside the City boundary—namely, Didworthy Sanatorium, Udal Torre Sanatorium, and Lee Mill Smallpox Hospital. The Medical Officer of Health is the General Superintendent of each of these. \ The City Hospital. This, before April, was a mixed workhouse holding about two hundred sick and infirm, and as many able bodied and lunatics ; some tramps, test workers and all the mixture of the old workhouse, which has been condemned for a century and more by Royal Commissions. On April 1st, 1930, the buildings became appropriated for