Tupsley Hospital for infectious diseases and Tupsley Smallpox Hospital; Holme Lacy Hospital for ‘mental defectives’; the cottage hospitals at Ledbury, Leominster, Ross-on-Wye, and Kington; Stretton Sugwas Hospital, near Credenhill; Nieuport Sanatorium; the former work...
617 healthcare workers (85.3% (para)medical and 14.7% auxiliary staff) participated. Less than half (45.5%) had been trained in Infection Prevention & Control (IPC), and only 15.7% were trained < 1 year ago. Near two-thirds (64.2%) preferred liquid soap for hand hygiene, versus 33....
It was back in June 1992 that Colin Thom and I visited King Edward VII Hospital, as it then was, as part of the RCHME Hospitals Project. The project involved site visits to as many pre-1948 hospitals throughout England as we could identify and manage within the three years allotted for ...
Methods Bacterial isolates and Identification The A. baumannii clinical isolates used in this study were collected between 2011 and 2013 from microbio- logical laboratories covering 6 hospitals in Tripoli, Lebanon: Tripoli Governmental hospital (100 beds), Nini (120 beds), Dar Al Chiffaa (120 beds...
being preceded by the District Asylums of Argyll and Bute at Lochgilphead, and Perth at Murthly. The first medical superintendent was Dr Aitken, who was accommodated in a ‘commodious and pleasantly-situated house near the Asylum’. This was to the south of institution, screened from view by...
200 should be used to build the hospital and medical officer’s house, while the residue of his estate should go towards its upkeep, this amounted to around £12,000. Martin’s sister died in 1900, and the funds were allowed to accrue before the hospital was built. The site was ...
In the same year Dr Elsie Inglis and the Medical Women’s Club opened a seven-bed hospital which was later known as the Hospice. These two institutions amalgamated in 1910. A new ward block was added to the complex, designed byArthur Balfour Paul, which was opened by Queen Mary on 18 ...
Research interest in bacteriology from the late 19th century saw the rise of laboratories, in Glasgow a laboratory was set up to deal with the bacteriology of epidemics. This research helped the medical officers of health to control epidemics through isolation, supervision of carriers and contacts,...