[Report 1959] / Medical Officer of Health, Keighley Borough.

  • Keighley (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1959
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Credit: [Report 1959] / Medical Officer of Health, Keighley Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SERVICES PROVIDED BY THE COUNTY COUNCIL Care of Mothers and Young Children (Sections 22 and 26 National Health Service Act 1946) Premises. The premises used for Maternity and Child Welfare Services remain the same as in previous years and details of the various clinics provided within the Borough will be found in the Appendix. The premises consist of Westgate Child Welfare Centre and five rented premises, one in the centre and the others in outlying parts of the Borough. At least three of these premises are unsatisfactory for the proper conduction of clinics but efforts to obtain alternative accommodation in these areas have so far proved unsuccessful However, the County Council are giving serious consideration to the provision of Mobile Clinics for these more remote areas where it is impossible to obtain suitable accom¬ modation. Child Welfare Clinics. The total number of children brought to clinics during the year was 1,411 who, between them made 12,550 attendances which shows a marked increase on the previous year. 891 children attended a clinic for the first time during the year, and were at that time under one year of age. Efforts to improve the attendances of children between the ages of 2 and 5 years have so far met with little success and our clinics still continue to be primarily infant feeding clinics for children during the first year of life. Maternity Services. During the year there was a total of 893 births assignable to the Borough. Of these 876 were live births and 17 stillbirths. Of the 893 total births in the population 747 were Institutional births; 297 of these occurred in Maternity and Nursing Homes and the remaining 450 in the General Practitioner Unit of St. John’s Hospital, Keighley. There ^ere 146 children delivered on the district. During 1959 there were 67 premature live births a ad 9 stillbirths notified made up as follows:— Live births Stillbirths Hospital cases . . 69 9 Domiciliary cases . . 7 — Of the live births 5 died within 24 hours and of the others one died before the end of 28 days. Of the 7 premature babies born at home one was transferred to hospital and the remaining six nursed at home. The 12 year follow up of babies born in 1949 was continued during the year. A total of 45 children have been followed up and of these 36 who were between 5 and 5j lbs. at birth have survived over ten years. Seven whose birth weight was between
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