[Report 1970] / Medical Officer of Health, Stevenage U.D.C.

  • Stevenage (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1970
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Credit: [Report 1970] / Medical Officer of Health, Stevenage U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HOME NURSING - SECTION 25 - STEVENAGE The staff of the home nursing service in the division at 31st December 1970 consisted of 14 district nurse/midwives, 4 midwives, 4 district nurses and one state enrolled nurse* The staff who are able to drive cars are either authorised to use their own vehicles on official business or have been provided with county-owned motor vehicles. The following are statistics relating to the work of the home nurses in 1970» It will be seen that they made 17*960 visits to 973 patients; 34 per cent of the patients nursed were aged 65 or over and they were visited on 12,091 occasions; 67 per cent of all visits, therefore, were made to this ago group, HOME NURSING Classification No. of cases attended No. of visits made Medical 666 j 14,793 Surgical 276 i 2,8l4 | Tuberculosis 2 156 Others 29 197 TOTALS 973 17,960 | Patients included above who were aged i i 65 or over 330 12,091 Children included above who were under i 1 5 50 199 j There has been a general increase during the year both in the number of visits paid and the number of patients attended. VACCINATION & IMMUNISATION STATISTICS BY COUNTY DISTRICT AS AT 31.12,70 SECTION 26 1 i 1 1 ] Born in 1969 ; Born in 1968 t [County District Diphth/Tet. Two Imms. 1 Diphth/Tet•j Primary i Measles 1 1 Smallpox 1 Baldock U.D. ' 97.6 95.9 53.v 68.5 i Hitchin U.D. 81.9 87.1 43.5 55.7 ' Letchworth U.D. 88.3 90.1 40.7 56.6 j J Royston U.D. 35.8 91.7 58.6 68.6 i 1 Stevenage U.D. 82.1 84,8 4l06 53.51 Hitchin RoD. 82.4 81.0 i 43.0 51.2 j M3 530.T j ISO 35^1. *—“ » Average 86.3 88.4 * 46.8 1 58.5; 1 > VACCINATION & IMMUNISATION The vaccination and immunisation rates for the districts are within the national average; those for measles vaccination however are disappointing and this has been reflected in the incidence of measles in this area for the past two years Measles is a serious childhood disease and will not become as uncommon as diphtheria until all parents realise that their children must be vaccinated in infancy.