[Report 1964] / Medical Officer of Health, Pembrokeshire County Council.

  • Pembrokeshire County Council
Date:
1964
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Credit: [Report 1964] / Medical Officer of Health, Pembrokeshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Occasional cases of serious neglect of children still unfortunate- ly occur and Dr. Lawlor, the Deputy County Medical Officer of Health, advised Inspector F. A. McGinley, the local officer of the N.S.P.C.C., on the medical condition and care of such children. 2. Welfare Department The care of the elderly and of the physically and mentally handicapped necessitates a close liaison between the staff of the County Welfare and Health departments, family doctors, the staffs of the district councils, and members of certain voluntary organisa- tions such as the Pembrokeshire Old People’s Welfare Committee. During February, 1964, a special meeting of representatives of the County Council and the Local Medical Committee was held, at the request of the latter Committee, to discuss the social prob- lems of the elderly in the County and the liaison between family doctors and the staffs of the County Welfare and Health depart- ments. It was agreed that an expansion of the voluntary and statu- tory domiciliary health and welfare services for the elderly, and a closer liaison, were both needed. Further progress was made during the year in planning the separation of the registration of births and deaths from the duties of district welfare officers but implementation of the separation was postponed until 1965. During the year, the Haverfordwest Borough Council com- pleted an interesting scheme for the provision of special housing accommodation for the elderly, with a warden service, at the Mora- vian Court, St. 1 homas’ Green, Haverfordwest. The accommoda- tion includes sixteen flatlets and four small adjacent cottages and its situation is very convenient for access to shops and centres of community life. A somewhat similar scheme was commenced during the year at Pembroke Dock. Work^ continued throughout the year on the extensions to Hillside, Goodwick, which will result in increasing the residential accommodation for the elderly at this home from fourteen to thirty beds. The modernisation of Riverside, Pembroke, also continued, and, on completion, will provide a home for sixty elderly persons] Dr. J. Clough Davies, the Consultant Geriatrician, continued to serve in an advisory capacity to the County Welfare and Health departments. He undertakes the assessment of suitability of patients inciranS^er ketween Part III accommodation and hospitals In 1964, forty-six were transferred from hospital to Part III accom- modation, and fifty-five in the opposite direction.
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