[Report 1960] / Medical Officer of Health, Counties of Perth & Kinross.
- Perthshire (Scotland). County Council.
- Date:
- 1960
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1960] / Medical Officer of Health, Counties of Perth & Kinross. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![1. Care of Mothers am] Young Children (a) Ante-natal and-Post-natal. Clinics. No clinics are held in : the County, but county patients attend the clinics run by Perth Royal Infirmary and Stirling Royal Infirmary, in these cities in conjunction with the Local riealth Authorities. During I960, 524 cases from the Joint County received ante-natal and/or post-natal t'r. care at the Perth Clinic, making 2855 attendances * Figures for Stirling arfe not available, » (b) Child V/elfare Clinics, All, the child welfare work in F the County is carried out by the District Nurses as Health Visitors, as but during I960 14 County children from neighbouring districts made ! 72 attendances at Perth City Clinics, lr It (c) Dental Care, Under the priority dental scheme, 127 t expectant mothers and 203 nursing mothers received treatment during t the year, j si (6) Mother and Baby Homes, None are provided. I be (e) Day Nurseries , None are provided, £ 1 ar (f) Residential Nurseries and Children's Homes. No Homes are provided by the Authority for this group, but all babies requiring residential accommodation are admitted to Fitversie Nursery, Abemethy, and during the year 50 babies were accommodated there, J (g) Nurseries and Child Minders Regulation Act, 1948, One f' registration in respect of a morning nursery at Crieff to take a maximum of twelve children between the ages of 3 and 5 was in force during the year. || (h) Family Planning,.- Advice is available to County cases at t the Mothers’ Welfare Clinic, Perth, and the Stirling Family Planning Clinic, both run by voluntary agencies, with small grants from the ■ c County Council. During the year I960, 106 old cases and 76 new cases made 76 new cases made 262 attendances at, the Perth Clinic, and 17 old and 28 new cases made 76 attendances at the Stirling cl ini](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2864900x_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
