[Report 1967] / Medical Officer of Health, Blackpool County Borough.
- Blackpool (England). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1967
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1967] / Medical Officer of Health, Blackpool County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![is dependent for its success upon the success of the other. Any retrenchmen affects not only the local authority services but also hobbles the hospital and general practitioner services. This raises the question as to whether the entire Health Service should not be financed by the Exchequer, especially if heavy demands for hea centres are to be met in the future. Patients and their relatives would have little regard for a family doctor who would accept with equanimity the lack of treatment locally which was generally availabl elsewhere. Similarly, a progressive minded council who have a special resPons^ 1 ^ and legal obligation for sections of the community would wish to their notice the shortcomings of some services and the complete lack of others. It is worth recalling that the following schemes have been achieved during the past ten years : Capital Projects : Belmont House Junior Training Centre \ and Special Care Unit j Rydal Lodge Abbey Road Clinic ... Adult Training Centre Hostel for the Young Mentally Infirm. School for the Mentally Handicapped Child. Hostel for the Aged Mentally Infirm. Combined School and M. & C.W. Clinic. Training Centre for Mentally Handicapped Adults. Services : Chiropody Service. Laundry Service. However, from the Ten Year Programme which the Local Authority hoped to see achieved, there have been the following omissions and deferments . Projects : Replacement Hostel for Belmont House. Day Nursery—(replacement). Clinic—Haddle House. Stsff * The employment of additional Health Visitors and District Nurses had been deferred. The previous periods of economic difficulties in our history have shown that it is the handicapped who are first to suffer during periods of U]}^P°y^^‘bota lack of tant that at present the same category should not be the first to su facilities and services. It will be clear from the amount of disability or incapacity and the which they are placed, that they are in need of care and support year. This is »& something which is a ‘s^orti^ to availability of services or convenience. Similarly, the responsi y tt h- the toe of established need does not disappear witharbitrary claims that noth.ng can be done ”, especially if these services are available elsewhere. If better management cannot be offered to cannot speak for themselves are forced to a tacit accegtanc scrambled acquiescence in distress with all its misery. Soon there toltows oem mess on all sides of guilt, resentment, hostility and conspiracy.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28932717_0010.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
