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6. STATE EXAMINATION SUCCESSES.
During the year 1927, lectures and instruction in practical
nursing and hygiene have been carried out in accordance with the
syllabus of the General Nursing Council, and courses of lectures
upon Infectious Diseases, Anatomy, Physiology, Hygiene, and
Practical Nursing have been delivered.
Two Nurses were successful at the Preliminary State
Examination, and three Nurses passed the Final State Examination,
which enables them to be placed upon the Register of the
General Nursing Council.
These successes are somewhat remarkable and certainly encouraging
when considered in conjunction with the fact that one
common nurses' room has to subserve the function of diningroom,
sitting-room, recreation-room, study-room and lecture-room,
and that adjuncts to study in the form of a library, diagrams,
charts, models and apparatus are either absent or of a very crude
nature.
7. ACCOMMODATION FOR PATIENTS AND STAFF.
The question of accommodation for staff and patients becomes
more acute each year, and in epidemic times, such as that which
we have experienced during the past year, the difficulties are
almost insurmountable. There is no necessity to reiterate the unfavourable
conditions under which patients are treated, nor the
former reports dealing with the very unsatisfactory accommodation
available for the Staff, but the following brief summary will serve
to indicate the position:—
RÉSUMÉ OF PRESENT CONDITIONS AT THE BOROUGH
HOSPITAL.
(a) Accommodation for Patients.
The area of the Hospital Wards, Temporary Wards and Huts, is insufficient
to provide for the accommodation, of one patient per thousand of the
population, if full compliance with the standards laid down by the Ministry of
Health is to be observed, and it has been found necessary on many occasions
and over long periods, to overcrowd the wards in order to provide necessary
treatment during times of epidemic although the Ministry has issued a very
strong report discouraging such a procedure. (Public Health and Medical
Subjects. No. 16.)