tendent, responsible to the Grantham Hospital Management Board, is in administrative charge of the whole hospital and has clinical charge of the Grantham Pulmonary Unit medical beds. The Grantham Thoracic Surgeon has clinical charge of the surgical beds in that Unil. The medical and surgical beds in the Government Pulmonary Unit are under the clinical supervision of the Government Senior Tuberculosis Specialist and the Government Specialist Thoracic Surgeon respectively. The orthopaedic beds are in the clinical charge of the Government Orthopaedic Specialist. All staff throughout the hospital is provided by the Association with the exception of Government Medical Officers posted to the Government clinical units whose salaries are recovered from the Association. The Government Specialists act as consultants and no charge is made for their services. For part of the year the Government Orthopaedic Specialist post was vacant and the work of the Unit was undertaken by an Honorary Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in private practice.
188. The number of admissions continues to rise since the hospital became fully operational towards the end of 1958 and the work carried out during the year ending March 31st, 1962 is shown in the following table.
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TABLE 13
New Admissiorra
1,006
Re-admissions
Discharged
978
Total Bed Days 190.897
Dearha
13
Health Teaching 'Prevention is better thun cure'.
Owhoppadk Operations
„Spinne
Hip
31
Others
ገብ
Thoracic Operations Resections
Wedge Segmental Labecron Pireumonectomy
MiscellaneoW
including Thoracoplasty
9
**
34
56
13
57
Granthom
Thoracic Uni
--
Government
Thoracic Unit
PA
4
189. An analysis of 254 cases which have undergone thoracic surgery in the Grantham Hospital unit has shown that 253 have remained sputum negative; 186 have returned to full time work, while 68 are working part-time.
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