TREATMENT OF ACCIDENT CASES

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22112, 7 June 1937, Page 9

TREATMENT OF ACCIDENT CASES

RECOMMENDATIONS OF BRITISH COMMITTEE (BRITISH OFFICIAL VTIRKLESS.) RUGBY, June 4. Recommendations for improving facilities for the treatment of fracture cases are contained in an interim report of the committee appointed more than a year ago to inquire into arrangements at present existing for restoring the working capacity of persons injured in accidents and to report upor 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 hospitals in England, Wales, and Scotland is more than 200,000. In 59 out of 825 hospitals from which the committee received information, there were special fracture departments, under single control, ensuring continuity of treatment until the patient was restored to work. The committee emphasises the importance of this unified control and of constant supervision and direction of all cases. The committee's report states that the provision of a network of fracture services, covering the whole country, will call for careful planning, and the co-operation of local authorities, hospitals, and the medical profession and of employers and workers' organisations will be necessary, and in some areas is being secured.