Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 17 April 1943
Marconigrams
It was stated at the annual meeting of Fullerton Hospital, Denaby Main, on Monday, that a loss of £311 18s. 4d. had been sustained on the year’s working.
Investments totalling £15,200 have already been promised towards Wath’s Wings for Victory Week target of £65,000. The Week starts on May 15th.
Two of three men caught by a heavy fall of roof at Barnburgh Main Colliery on Sunday were rescued uninjured after nine hours. The third man was killed.
Wath and District Hospital Sunday Movement, who are attempting to raise £500 to endow a bed at the Montagu Hospital, Mexborough, are holding a collection this week-end. They have already raised £330.
The gap between production and consumption of coal has now been closed according to Major Lloyd George, Minister of Fuel, who said this week: “When I took over my task I was faced with a deficit of eleven million tons of coal. I decided to ask for voluntary co-operation of the people. All have helped in the closing of that gap.”
Yorkshire contributed six to the total number of fifty-six convictions for cruelty to animals obtained by the R.S.P.C.A. during March. In March, 1912, there were ninety-two cases. There is an increase in the number of convictions for last month, when the figure was only forty-two. During March there was one case of failure to report T.B. in a cow, five of causing T.B. in cows and seven for permitting it by owners of horses. Convictions in respect of horses have risen sharply from thirteen to twenty-three, cattle from one to six, and there is no offence recorded this month against a guinea-pig. For bravery in rescuing animals, Yorkshire has been awarded a silver medal.
Swinton War Welfare Week has so far realised over £400. The money goes to swell the War Welfare Fund, which provides gifts for those from the town in H.M. Forces.
Consumers of coal, both industrial and household, although urged to prevent every kind of waste, are to be allowed to acquire during the coming summer months stocks to meet next winter’s requirements.
Air Commodore Sidney Smith, Commandant of Air Training Corps North-Eastern Region, is suffering from bronchial pneumonia and has been compelled to cancel all his public engagements.
The Board of Management of Montagu Hospital are negotiating with the Mexborough Urban Council for the purchase of additional land. The western boundary of the Hospital premises, required for extensions which will have to be faced very soon after the war.
Coun. Sam Silverwood, J.P., chairman of Mexborough Urban Council, is seriously ill in the Montagu Hospital. Coun. Silverwood has not been in good health for several months. “He was yesterday stated to be fairly comfortable.” His condition was said to be “satisfactory.”
Coun. W. A. W. Fouchard, of Bolton, has been appointed chairman of the Sheffield Hospitals Regional Council. This appointment reflects credit not only on the recipient, but also on the Montagu Hospital at Mexborough, whose representative he is and for which institution he puts in a large amount of valuable service.
The Minister of Health is now engaged in confidential but frank discussions with representatives of the medical profession, the voluntary hospitals and local government in order to frame plans for a comprehensive health service, which will provide for every man, woman and child in the country the advantages of first class domiciliary and institutional treatment.
At a meeting of the Yorkshire South Eastern Branch of the Association of Mining Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, held at the Rotherham Technical College, officials elected were: President, Mr. W. H. Littlewood (Rother Vale Collieries); Senior Vice-President, Mr. R. J. Jones (Manvers Main); Junior Vice-President, Mr. D. Allison, Junior Electrical Inspector of Mines.