[Report 1961] / Medical Officer of Health, Ludlow R.D.C.

  • Ludlow (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1961
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Credit: [Report 1961] / Medical Officer of Health, Ludlow R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ambulance Service The Central Ambulance Station is in Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury (Tel . No . Shrewsbury 6331)• There is a local Ambulance Depot in Ludlow where three ambulances and one dual purpose vehicle are based. Drivers are on call and can be called out at any time during the day or night . One dual purpose vehicle is kept at a garage in Craven Arms for local convenience . During 1961 these five vehicles made 3>250 journeys carrying 8,482 patients a total distance of 142,965 miles. Arrangements for calling out ambulances are normally made through doctors anl hospitals but in emergency calls from anyone are put through to the Central Ambulance Station and appropriate arrangements made. Prevention of 'illness. Care and After-Care . (a) All home hurses and midwives hold a small supply of minor articles of nursing equipment such as hot water bottles, air rings, bed pans and feeding sups, for loan to patients being nursed at home. .. ip The treatment of tuberculosis falls to Regional Hospital Boards to pr>,ide in the way of Sanatoria and Chest Clinics, but the preventive and arfsr care side of the work is shared between the Hospital Boards and Local Health Authorities. The County Council for their share provide open-air Shelters where required . They also join with Regional Boards .in making from time to time local arrangements for Mass Miniature Radiography Surveys, and through their Health Visitors undertake a considerable amount of follow-up work with patients. Extra nourishment may in necessitous cases be provided. (c) Arrangements are made under this section for the convalescence of persons not requiring special medical or nursing care. (d) Through their Mental Yfelfare Officers and Health Visitors the County Council are res,, onsible for the supervision in their own homes of mentally handicapped persons and also for helping general medical practitioners to secure hospital treatment for those persons who become mentally unbalanced . Denes’Ll o Help . The County Council provides a fairly comprehensive Domestic Help Service through brunch offices . The grei-’i'Cr cant cf this area is served from the Ludlow Home Help Office which is open on Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons. A small section in the north, however, is served from the Church Stretton Home Help Office which opens on Monday mornings and Thursday afternoons . During the year ended 31st December, 1961, the services of the County Council’s Home Helps directed from the Ludlow Office were made available in 70 homes in the Borough and Rural District. In 60 cases the help was provided for the benefit of aged and chronic sick persons, in seven cases help was needed on account of temporary illness and in a further three homes domiciliary confinements had occurred. -8-
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