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Institutional Provision for unmarried mothers, illegitimate
infants and homeless children. No change from the arrangements
noted in the Report for 1930.
Ambulance Facilities.—The details set out in the Annual
Report for 1935 regarding ambulance facilities available within
the Borough, together with the alterations commented upon in last
year's Annual Report, hold good. All cases of doubt are referred
to the Medical Officer of Health, and the Borough Council would
appear to have much upon which to congratulate itself with regard
to the operation of its ambulance service.
Council Employees.—Twelve Council employees were
examined at the Town Hall during 1937, either for admittance to
the superannuation scheme or before being accepted into the
Council's service.
Mortuary.—During 1937, 43 bodies were deposited in the
Council's mortuary situated at the rear of the Town Hall.
A valuable addition to the Public Health services of the
Borough was made towards the end of 1937, when the new mortuary
premises situated at the rear of the Town Hall were completed.
These premises consist of a body store capable of housing five
bodies, a fully-equipped post-mortem room, and a suitably-decorated
viewing room. Full publicity regarding the mortuary facilities
was supplied to the local Press, while all general practioners within
the Borough were circulatd, informing them of the existence of
those facilities and offering their use. wherever such a regrettable
necessity arose. This invitation has been accepted on numerous
occasions, and it would already appear that the mortuary is fulfilling
a very definite and valuable purpose.
LABORATORY FACILITIES.
The following tables set out the work carried out at the
Council's laboratory and at other laboratories to which material
was sent during 1937.
Work at the laboratory continues to increase, and it is hoped
that, when the hospital extensions have been completed, arrangements
will be made whereby the hospital laboratory can be used for
general Borough purposes. There can be no doubt that the existence
of a laboratory within the district is an inestimable advantage.
One cannot easily set these advantages out in print, but they are
none the less tangible and important.
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