[Report 1949] / Medical Officer of Health, Jersey.

  • Jersey (Channel Islands). Council.
Date:
1949
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Credit: [Report 1949] / Medical Officer of Health, Jersey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Jersey is indeed fortunate in having been so generously remembered by one whose only association with the Island was a few years of residence. The extensions at the Macernity Home have been com- pleted and accommodation is now available for even the poorest mother to have her child in surroundings equal to any available to those in possession of means enabling them to attend private homes. At Overdale extra accommodation has been provided by means of a number of separate bungalows and the out- patients department has been working overtime in the screening of hundreds of children, and in innoculating of many hundreds more with B.C.G. At St. Saviour’s Hospital a complete new unit has been erected, for the housing and treatment of Mental Defective Children. This unit will enable Dr. Wishart to keep in separate quarters children who have at present either to be cared for by parents, often in most unsatisfactory conditions, or who have to be housed with adults in the Main Building. The Old Ladies Home at Sandybrook has been full to capacity, and the Committee as previously stated, have in mind a large extension to the existing premises. On all sides the Committee hears expressions of thanks from inmates and relatives for the care and consideration given to the old ladies in residence. Many structural alterations have been made at the General Hospital. Extra sessions at the various clinics have been introduced and the Hospital Services have been extended to meet the requirements of the ever increasing number availing themselves of the facilities provided for treatment. Amongst the new clinics provided are a cardio- graphical and a physchiatric clinic and a full time patho- logist has been placed in charge of the Laboratory. A full time social worker has also been engaged in order to follow up cases after their discharge from the various Hospitals.