INJURED WORKERS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 132, 5 June 1937, Page 9

INJURED WORKERS

FACILITIES FOR TREATMENT

FRACTURE CASES IN BRITAIN

(British Official Wireless.)

KUGBY, June 3.

Hecommendations for improving facilities for the treatment of fracture cases are contained in an interim report of the committee appointed over a year ago to inquire into arrangements at present existing for restoring the working capacity of persons injured in accidents and to report upon any improvements that might be expedient.

The committee dealt first with fractures, and the report records that the number of fracture cases treated annually in the hospitals of England, Wales, and Scotland is well over 200,000. In 59 out of 825 hospitals from which the committee received information there are special fracture departments under single control, ensuring continuity of treatment until the patient is restored to work, and the committee emphasises the importance of this unified control and of the constant supervision and direction of all cases by a visiting surgeon specially appointed.

The committee concludes that the provision of a network of fracture services covering the whole country will call for careful planning. The cooperation of local authorities, hospitals, the medical profession, and employers' 'and workers' organisations will be necessary, and in some areas is already being secured.