[Report 1951] / Medical Officer of Health, Worcester City.

  • Worcester (England). City Council.
Date:
1951
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Credit: [Report 1951] / Medical Officer of Health, Worcester City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    > > SECTION II. Nationa 1 Health Service^Act 1916. Local HeaJUMy Serviceis__ under Part III. Ma to r n i ty and Chi Id W o If a r e . Pre -Na ta 1 and P os t-Na ta 1 Clinics^ Two sessions weekly are hold at the main Maternity and Ghi c Welfare Centro at 54, Lowesmoor; at one there is an ante-natal clinic and at the other an ante-natal, post-natal and contraceptive clinic is hold. Women attending are those having institutional confinements those who may have booked a midwife but not^a doctor, and. some whose doctors invoke the assistance of the municipal clinic for adequate pre-natal supervision of their patients. All expectant mothers accepting it have a blood-tost for blood-grouping and Rhesus Factor. An additional ante-natal clinic is held by a general practi¬ tioner], na id by the Local Health Authority on a sessional basis, at the Nursing Institute. While benefiting the patient this clinic has instructional value to the pupil midwives taking part II oi their course. Care of the unmarried Mother y * Use is made of the subsidised services of a voluntary body the Worcester Diocesan Association for Moral Welfare Work, in the care and after-care of the unmarried mother and her child, to whom all the facilities of the Maternity and Child Welfare Service are readily available. During the year the Local Heal th Author ity accepted, financial liability .for eight cases. The assistance needed, in these cases is, in my view, .primarily financial, and secondarily rehabilitative, and the financial aspects should be divorced from the Local Health Authority's participation in these matters and referred to the National Assistance Board, as, indeed, should all problems of financial need of the individual. Such logical canalisation of financial need application through the National Assistance Board would probably in the long run produce economies and reduce exploitation of the social services. Infant Welfare Clinics. Two clinics -weekly are held at the main Centre at 54, Lowesmoor and. one session weekly at branch clinics at Clainos, Brickfields, St. Johnf s and Cherry Orchard, the last-named centre having been opened in a school during 1951. The child welfare work is being steadily decentralised as the population is rehoused on the periphery of the City and soon the need for a main central clinic will cease. During the year re-arrangements were made in the distribution of dried milk, etc. at clinics under which the duties of dried milk distribution were taken over from the Ministry of Food by the Local Authority!s officer.
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