Reports on hospitals and the patient and a domestic workers' charter
1931 1931 1930s 22 pages most important work of the day, from the nurses' point of view, is carried out carefully and under adequate supervision, and except in mid-winter by daylight. Consequently, symptoms, such as rashes, colour of skin, etc., can be more readily observed. C. Food. Whilst...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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London : Labour Party
1931
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most important work of the day, from the nurses' point of view, is carried out carefully and under adequate supervision, and except in mid-winter by daylight. Consequently, symptoms, such as rashes, colour of skin, etc., can be more readily observed. C. Food. Whilst it is realised that the actual diet of a patient must be decided by those in charge of the case, yet there is much room for improvement in general details concerning hospital food. The system prevalent in many hospitals of patients supplying some part of it, such as butter, tea and eggs, should be abolished, and the hospital should be responsible for providing all the food needed by the patients, allowing for a greater choice than is usual at present, e.g., choice of white or brown bread. This would dispense with the practice of keeping food in lockers, though an exception might be allowed for fruit and sweets, or food that can be kept in a tin, such as biscuits. Attention should be given to the necessity of serving hot food — hot and not warm. This is not a difficult matter, requiring only equipment to suit the relative positions of wards and kitchens. Of late years the large hospitals have paid more attention to having trained women in the kitchen, but many of the smaller hospitals have not yet a trained kitchen superintendent. D. Washing. It is customary to wash patients twice a day and to provide then only for teeth cleaning. Patients should be able to wash more often than this, especially their teeth, and it is important that a receptacle should be provided at night for false teeth if wanted. E. Noise. Hospitals should not face on to noisy and crowded thoroughfares. Those which now do so should be be replaced as soon as possible by buildings on more suitable sites. The strain of continuous noise is a heavy one, and in a hospital so placed care should be taken to give the quieter wards to those cases needing them most, and not, as is done now, to reserve these for paying patients. Much unnecessary noise also could be avoided inside the hospital by substituting rubber or wooden floors for stone ones. (12)
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