[Report 1928] / Medical Officer of Health, Stockport County Borough.

  • Stockport (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1928
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Credit: [Report 1928] / Medical Officer of Health, Stockport County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    -28 circumstances. The motor ambulance provided by the Poor Law Authorities is used in connection with the conveyance of patients to the Stepping Hill Poor Law Hospital. Clinics and Treatment Centres* Name and Situation. By Whom Provided. Maternity and Child Welfare Centre, 125, Gt. Portwood Street, Stockport. Town Council. Ante-natal Clinic, 125, Gt. Portwood Street, Stockport.. School for Mothers & Babies’ Welcome, Churchgate House, Stockport. Branch : Stanhope Street, Reddish.. Stockport School'] by Town for Mothers & ! Council from Babies’Welcome. f 1st October. „ „ J 028. Central School Clinic, 108, Wellington Road South, Stockport. Town Council. Branch Clinic at Reddish. Tuberculosis Dispensary, Great Egerton Street, Stockport. Venereal Diesases Treatment Centre, Great Egerton Street, Stockport. Professional Nursing in the Home* The Stockport Sick Poor and Private Nursing Association. (President, Sir Thomas Rowbotham, J.P.). The Headquarters of the District Nursing Department of this Association known as the Barnsley Home for Nurses, is situated in Greek Street, Stockport. The Staff consists of a Matron and seven Nurses. The nursing of all classes of sickness is undertaken with the exception of certain cases of infectious disease, i.e., Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, etc. Arrangements have been made by your Council with the Committee of the Association for the provision of home nursing facilities in cases of Measles, Puerperal h ever, Ophthalmia Neonatorum and Pemphigus Neonatorum on the recommendation of the Medical Officer of Health. For this purpose your Council made a financial grant of 50 guineas during the year under review. Arrangements have been made with the Stockport Insurance Committee for the nursing of sick insured persons approved of by the Committee at a rate of 1/- per visit.