[Report 1956] / Medical Officer of Health, Radnorshire County Council.

  • Radnorshire (Wales). County Council.
Date:
1956
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Credit: [Report 1956] / Medical Officer of Health, Radnorshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Monthly visits are paid to Blind people, and three monthly visits to Mental defectives and persons on the Tuber- culosis Register who are not at the moment receiving active treatment. This enables the nurse to keep her patients under observation. Her visits are appreciated by them as social calls, and afford an opportunity to encourage the carrying out of treatment, and to discuss problems which may arise. There are a few problem families in the County, and no special arrangements are made to deal with them. Extra visiting is carried out and demonstrations of better methods given. Co-operation with the family doctor. Children’s Officer, National Assistance Board and Welfare bodies is good. The advice of the Superintendent Nursing Officer and the County Medical Officer of Health is often sought and readily given. The Health Visitors have continued to help with the scheme for B.C.G. vaccination, by encouraging the consent of the parents, and by follow-up visits to the homes of those children who have received vaccination. Vaccination against poliomyelitis which was carried out during the year meant work for the Health Visitor, mainly in answering the numerous questions which were asked by mothers anxious about the effect of vaccination ; and later coping with the many mothers who now wished to have their children vaccinated after seeing that the neighbours’ children survived it. It is to be regretted that the response to the appeal to have children vaccinated against smallpox it not nearly so good. The need is not so clearly seen—they do not hear of many cases of smallnox, but the dread of poliomyelitis is always with them. This is the argument of many mothers, supported by father, who has vivid memories of a very painful arm following vaccination in the army. The example of mothers who do have their children vaccinated would appear to be of the greatest help in encouraging the not so keen.
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