[Report 1951] / Medical Officer of Health, Aberdeen County Council.

  • Aberdeenshire (Scotland). Council
Date:
1951
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Credit: [Report 1951] / Medical Officer of Health, Aberdeen County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Nursing Services At the end of 1951, the nursing staff was as under: — (1) Superintendent of Nurses and Assistant Superintendent 2 (2) Nurses performing combined duties ... 49 (3) Health Visitors—full time ... ... ... ... ... 7 (4) Midwives —full-time ... ... ... ... ... ... 4 (5) Nurses performing general duties only ... ... ... 2 (6) Relief Nurses ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 2 66 At present thirty-one nurses are living in premises set apart as nurses’ houses, sixteen nurses are living in their own homes, and seventeen are in lodgings. It will be seen that the majority of the nurses perform combined duties, but, in most instances, home nursing and midwifery occupy the greater proportion of their time. Details as to their duties are as follows:— 1. Home visitation and nursing of ordinary sick persons. 2. Domiciliary midwifery. 3. Home visitation of expectant and nursing mothers and of pre-school children. 4. Attendances at the Council’s Child Welfare Clinics. 5. Home visitation of cases on the Tuberculosis Register and superision of “contacts” of tuberculous persons. 6. Attendance with the School Medical Officers at routine medical inspection; periodic examination of school children as to head and body cleanliness; follow-up visits to handicapped children, both at school and in their homes. 7. Visitation of boarded-out children. 8. Propaganda in connection with the promotion of health, vaccination against smallpox and immunisation against diphtheria. 9. Work undertaken at the instigation of the hospital authorities and general practitioners by arrangement with the North-Eastern Regional Hospital Board or the Executive Council respectively. Except in emergency, this work will be undertaken only on the instruction of the Medical Officer of Health or the Superintendent of Nurses. 10. By arrangement with the North-Eastern Regional Hospital Board, the following-up of female Venereal Diseases defaulters, that is, patients who have not undergone a full course of treatment. The following is a record of the work performed by the nurses in 1951: — Cases Visits 1. General Nursing ... 5,848 95,763 2. Maternity Nursing 672 11,334 3. Expectant Mothers: Total Visits (a) Domiciliary 5,733 (b) Hospital 20,491 4. Child Welfare: First Visits (a) Infants—1 year 2,545 30,976 (b) Children from 1-5 years ... 3,595 34,205 5. School Health Service 4,043 6. Tuberculosis work ... 2,008
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