[Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Flintshire County Council.

  • Flintshire (Wales). County Council. no2003052036.
Date:
1948
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Credit: [Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Flintshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    POLIOMYELITIS—7 cases came to the Authority’s notice during the year under review, as compared with 30 during the ipreceding year. Section D. WELFARE OF THE BLIND. The National Assistance Act, 1948, brought about the repeal of the Blind Persons Act, 1920, but tlie welfare of blind persons remiained a duty of the County Council. The Council, however, are no longer responsible for paying allowances to unemployable blind persons, this responsibility passing to the Assistance Board, but the Council was still responsible for the augmentation of earnings of employable blind persons. For many years, the Chester and District Blind Welfare Society, and the North Wales Society for the Blind had carried ouit welfare work, including home teaching, among the blind persons in the County of Flint as agents of the County Council. It was decided that these two voluntary organisa- tions should continue to provide the welfare services as agents of the County Council for a fixed period, the matter to be then subject to review. The number of blind persons supervised by these organisations at 31s>t December, 1948, was ;— Table 22. North Wales Society for the Blind ... ... 75 Chester and District Blind Welfare Society ... 168 Total ... 243 The Chester and District Blind Welfare Society have workshops at Chester in which a number of Flintshire blind persons are employed. The North Wales Society have no workshops at which Flintshire per- sons are employed. Section E. INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD, ETC. The statutory duties of the County Council under the Food and Drugs Act, 1938, and other legislation, had in the past been discharged by mem- bers of the County Constabulary, but early in 1948 it was decided that this responsibility should be transferred to the Health Department and that a fully qualified sanitary inspector should be appointed. This transfer was effected on July 1st, when Mr. Elwyn Lewis, M.R.S.I., took up his duties within the Department.
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