[Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, West Lancashire R.D.C.
- West Lancashire (England). Rural District Council.
- Date:
- 1938
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, West Lancashire R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Altcar and Downholland are included in the Formby Association ; Ince Blundell in that of Great Crosby ; Bispham with Parbold and Applew Bridge ; Bickerstaffe with Rainford. The new Sefton Affiliated Asso¬ ciation is situated wholly in the Rural District, and provides for Thornton, Netherton, Sefton, and Aintree. Tarleton and Rufford are combined with Bretherton (the latter in the Chorley Rural District). Ford is nursed by the Titherland District Nursing Association. At the end of 1936 a new Association for Kirkby (in the Whiston Rural District), Tydiate and Melling was formed, and it is anticipated that this association’s activities may later be increased to include Maghull. With one exception all the nurses are certihed midwives. The Midwives Acts are administered by the County Council. Sub¬ joined is a list of the midwives resident in the District at the end of 193<S. Child Welfare Centres are provided by the County Council in Orms- kirk, Skelmersdale, Maghull and North Meols. Four Health Visitors work in the District. The Public Assistance Institution in Ormskirk accommodates un¬ married mothers, illegitimate infants and homeless children. Apart from this there is no provision in the District for these cases. EMERGENCY MATERNITY UNIT. Arrangements have been made by the Tancashire Countv Council, Health Department, with the Corporation of Southport for the use of their emergency maternity unit, for patients resident in the following districts :— Halsall, Hesketh-with-Becconsall, North Meols, Rufford, Scarisbrick and Tarleton. Occasionally, urgent hospital treatment is recpiired for pregnant or parturient women, but removal to hospital would be dangerous owing to the patient’s condition. The emergency unit is intended for use in such cases. The emergency unit consists of Dr. N. E. Laurence, the Medical Officer at the Corporation’s Maternity Hospital, a nurse and the neces¬ sary c(|uipment for dealing with emergencies. The services of the unit ” are available, when summoned by a doctor for attendance at any home of a patient in the districts mentioned above. Each ]xitient is required to contribute towards the cost of the ser¬ vices of the “ unit ” according to the family circumstances.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30261648_0038.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
