[Report 1956] / Medical Officer of Health, Warminster U.D.C.
- Warminster (England). Urban District Council.
- Date:
- 1956
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1956] / Medical Officer of Health, Warminster U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES IN THE AREA, a) Laboratory Facilities. The district is fortunate in having laboratory facilities available to the East and to the West, i.e. in the Pathological Department of the Salisbury Informary and the Public Health Laborator in Bath, Practitioners in the district use the most convenient laboratory, a practice followed by this Department when forwarding specimens of water, milk, ice-cream, or suspected foodstuffs for bacteriological investigation. b) Ambulance Service. The Ambulance service is provided and controlled by the Wiltshire County Council. The service to this district is controlle from Bradford-on-Avon where the station is manned continuously. A sub-station in Warminster also serves the district. Non-emergency calls must originate from a doctor, dentist, or midv/ife. To obtain an ambulance in an emergency:- where there is a dialling system in operation, dial 999 where there is no dialling system, lift the receiver and ask for an ambulance. c) L.idwifcry, Home Nursing. Health Visitors and Home Helps. These services are provided and controlled by the Wiltshire County Council, County Hall, Trowbridge, telephone Trowbridge 3641. d) Clinics and Treatment Centres. The following Clinics serve the districts:- 1. Ante Natal: At the Latcrnity Hospitals concerned. Consultant Clinics are at Trowbridge and Bradford-on-Avon for patients referred by their own doctor or midwife. Baptist Chapel, West End, Westbury, Wilts. - Wednesday mornings 10.0 - 12.30 p.m. 2 • Infant Welfare: Methodist ^hape1, George Street, Warminster at 2.30 p.m, on the first end third Fridays of each month. Methodist Schoolroom, Station Road, Westbury at 2.30 p.m. every Thursday. Progressive Fall, North Bradley at 2.30 - 4 p.m. on the second and feirth Wednesdays of each month. Trowbridge C.C. Clinic, The Halve, at 2 p.m. on every Tuesday and Thursday. 3..Paediatrics. Warminster Hosiltal on second Friday in each month. Trowbridge and Listrict Hospital third Friday in each month, 4. Liptheria, 'Choc] ing • Cough and'Poliomyelitis Immunization. Immunization is undertaken by the County Council and Medical Officers visit tae schools in outlying villages at specified dates for this y. rpose. All family doctors will also carry out immunization. The Warminster Clinic is held on the fourth Friday of every month at 2 p.m. at tho lethodist Schoolroom, George Street, Warminster. The Westbury Cli'ic is held on the fourth Thursday of every month at 2.30 p.m, at t a Methodist Schoolroom, Station Road,Westbury](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30234396_0008.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
