Annual report of the Cranage Hall Hospital Management Committee : 1948-49.

  • Cranage Hall Hospital Management Committee (Holmes Chapel, England)
Date:
1949
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Credit: Annual report of the Cranage Hall Hospital Management Committee : 1948-49. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ANNUAL REPORT of the COMMITTEE for the period ended 31st March, 1949. CHAIRMAN AND VICE-CHAIRMAN. Chairman: Alderman W. Gittins. Vice-Chairman: Alderman T. Clayton. MEMBERSHIP. Alderman J. Bowler. Alderman F. W. Radcliffe. Councillor Mrs. A. L. Cochrane. Councillor Mrs. M. Evans, J.P. Councillor Mrs. E. F. Wood. Mr. W. Brock. Dr. A. Brown. Councillor F. B. Buxton. Alderman F. Dale. Mrs. K. H. Jacks. Councillor Mrs. S. J. Dunne. CO-OPTED MEMBERSHIP. Carey Bowden, Esq., and Miss M. Brooks were co-opted :o the Executive and Staffs Sub-Committee. It is with regret that the death of Alderman F. D. Price and Councillor C. T. Douthwaite, J.P., has to be recorded. NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE ACT, 1946. Under the terms of the above Act, the Cheshire Joint Board was dissolved on the Appointed Day, viz., 5th July, 1948, and the Vanage Hall Colony, together with the Mary Dendy Homes, cormerly administered by the Cheshire County Council, passed into the hands of the Minister of Health. Both institutions being administered by the Manchester Regional Hospital Board, through Cranage Hall Hospital Management Committee. MEETINGS OF THE COMMITTEE. The Chairman, Alderman W. Gittins, convened the first meeting of the newly-constituted Management Committee on the 16th June, 1948, and thereafter meetings were held at both Hospitals in the Group. HOSPITAL NOMENCLATURE. It was decided to name the Hospitals under the management of the Committee: Cranage Hall Hospital, Mary Dendy Hospital.