[Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Dartford R.D.C.
- Dartford (England). Rural District Council.
- Date:
- 1948
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Dartford R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AREA. Inhere were no chaiigv^s or developments in the Laboratory facilities. The following specimens from this office were examined at the County Laboratory;— Water for bacteriological analysis ... ... ••• ••• ••• 20 Water for chemical analysis ... ... ... ... ... ... 9 Miik (Special Designations) ... ... ... ... ... ... 72 Blood (from ante-natal clinics up to 5.7.48 ... ... ... ... 37 Urine ... ... ... ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 1 Throat swabs ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 4 On July 5th the administrative changes of the National Health Service Act resulted in all Ambulance and Home Nursing Services becoming a responsibility of the County Council. By the same Act the responsibility for Treatment Centres and Hospitals was transferred to the newly created South East Regional Hospital Board. This resulted in two former L.C.C. General Hospitals being made available to patients from this district; these were :— Joyce Green Hospital. Staffed accommodation 300, unstaffed accommodation 800 Southern Hospital. „ „ 260, „ „ 1,400 The Ambulance Services in 1948 were adequate. Staffed hospital accommodation for eases of tuberculosis and for the aged sick were inadequate. MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE. On July 5th the responsibility for Riseley Maternity Home was transferred to the South East Regional Hospital Board and that of the remainder of the Maternity and Child Welfare Services was transferred to the Kent County Council. Ante-natal Clinics. One Clinic was held each week at Riseley, the remaining Clinics were held fort- nightly. In January arrangements were made for the Stone Clinic to be conducted by the midwife and myself instead of by the midwife alone as formerly. The following were the attendances up to 5th July, 1948;— Eisele.y 114 Stone ... 119 Swanley 111 Southfleet 6 Total 350 In January the County Pathologist Ivindly agreed to examine blood specimens submitted to him from our Clinics. This is the last o])portunity of recording these results and I am therefore taking the liberty of reporting them u]) to date:— Rh. Type No. examined Positive Negative Expectant women ... ... 106 83 23 Husbands of Eh., negative ex- pectant women ... ... 18 12 6 Anti-Rh. agglutinins ])resent in one Rh. negative mother. A.B.O. Group No. examined A. -B. AB. O Expectant women ... 106 45 11 3 47 Husbands of Eh. negative expectant women ... 18 6 2 0 10 Haemoglobin percentage Haden scale 100% =15.6 grammes per lOOcc. blood. No. expectant women Haemoglobin % age examined 50-50 -69 —79 -89 --99 105 5 15 56 27 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29150437_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
