| Description | Soft-bound booklet containing the Chairman's Report, Medical Report, a Report on the Hospital Laboratory, a Report of the Medical Social Service Department, and the Ladies Linen Guild Report.
Prominent topics mentioned in the Chairman's Report include changes in Board membership (including the death of William R Wigham), rehabilitation treatment in Cherry Orchard, the establishment of the hospital as a regional poliomyelitis centre, the appointment of Dr Fergus Colm O'Herlihy as Medical Superintendent on a permanent basis, and a visit to the hospital by the International Hospitals Federation on 21 May 1955. The Medical Report includes sections concerning the admission and treatment of patients suffering in large numbers from measles, whooping cough, streptoccocal infections, scarlet fever, tonsillitis, and poliomyelitis. |