[Report 1955] / Medical Officer of Health, Staffordshire County Council.
- Staffordshire (England). County Council
- Date:
- 1955
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1955] / Medical Officer of Health, Staffordshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![A further step foiward in the facilities offered to ineiilal defectives was the opening of an Adult Industrial Centre at Wiilcnhalh This is intended to accommodate 60 defectives of both sexes, who will be ]xud a minimum of one shilling per day. Attendance at the Centre is prim¬ arily to gi\^e the defectives the feeling that they are going to work like other members of the community. Many attractive articles are made by the trainees which are offered for sale and trades taught include boot Repairing. ]>esides giving a useful occupation to the older age groups the Centre has had the effect of relieving the Special Training Centres in the south of the County of this type of defective, which allows more specialised tuition being given to the needs of the younger children. It is not possible in the foreword to do more than mention a fev/ of the more prominent happenings in the year and the record of the whole of the work of a large team, which now numbers over 1,500, is contained in the body of the Report. The success of the Department in contrib¬ uting to the increased standards of health of the population is dependant on the efficient work of each member of the staff, both in the field and offices, which has been forthcoming during the year. Equally import¬ ant is the work of the Health Committee, who have continued to support with enthusiasm every proposal for the improvement of the service and upon this the future rate of progress depends. August, 1656. G. RAMAGE, County Medical Officer of Health.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30132277_0007.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
