On This Day
On This Day, 8 July 1918
On 08, Jul 2018 | In On This Day | By Nicola Gauld
Birmingham Daily Post
Monday 8 July 1918
MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR DISCHARGED SOLDIERS.
NEW HOSPITAL ARRANGEMENTS IN BIRMINGHAM.
The Ministry of Pensions, which realises the necessity for providing hospital beds for pensioners – discharged disabled men – requiring medical or surgical treatment has taken an important step in Birmingham in relation to this matter. With the advice and assistance of Dr. Robertson, the City Medical Officer of Health, it has been arranged to use the old fever hospital in Lodge Road for the purpose of attending to the needs of pensioners. The hospital will provide 200 beds, with possibilities of considerable extension.
A resident medical officer has been appointed, and Dr. W. R. Jordan has accepted the post of consulting physician, and Mr. Albert Lucas that of consulting surgeon. Miss Webb, matron of Cheltenham General Hospital, and late assistant matron of the General Hospital, Birmingham, has been appointed matron.
It is expected that arrangements will be made with the civil hospitals to reserve beds for the treatment of severe cases and those calling for serious operations.
