[Report 1955] / Medical Officer of Health, Salop / Shropshire County Council.

  • Shropshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1955
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Credit: [Report 1955] / Medical Officer of Health, Salop / Shropshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1955 ADMINISTRATION The work of the County Health Department is controlled by the Health Committee, certain powers being delegated to a number of Sub-Committees, the composition and duties of which are as indicated below: Health (General Purposes) Sub-Committee: Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Council j Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Health Committee ^ Ex-officio Chairman of the Nursing and Water Sub-Committees ] Ten members of the Health Committee To meet monthly to deal with day-to-day matters of urgency connected with the administration of the Local Health Services, including such matters connected with the Ambulance Service as are not delegated to the Local Ambulance Sub-Committees; to advise the Health Committee as to the administration of the Mental Health Service; and to exercise the Council’s powers under the Milk (Special Designation) (Pasteurized and Sterilised Milk) Regulations, 1949—1953. Health (Nursing) Sub-Committee: Chairman of the Council [ Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Health Committee ] Nine members of the Health Committee Seven members nominated by the Shropshire Nursing Association To advise the Health Committee on the administration of the Local Health Services for the care of mothers and young children; midwifery; health visiting; home nursing; prevention of illness, care and after-care; domestic help; supervision of midwives; registration of nursing homes and nurses’ agencies; and investigations under the Midwives Acts. (This is also the Care Committee under the Council’s scheme for the care and after-care of tuberculous patients). Health (Water) Sub-Committee: Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Council Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Health Committee Nine members of the Health Committee To consider the reports of the Council’s consultant upon water supply and sewerage; to advise the Health Committee upon the exercise of their functions in relation to water supplies and sewer¬ age and, in particular, as to the making of grants under the Public Health Act, 1936, and the Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Acts, 1944 to 1955, with authority to approve schemes in principle on behalf of the County Council; and to advise the Health Committee as to the exercise of the powers and duties of the Council under the Housing Acts and the Water Acts, 1945 and 1948. I Ex-officio National Assistance Acts, 1948—1951: Administration under these Acts is the responsibility of the Welfare Committee of the County Council. VITAL STATISTICS Area (in acres) of Administrative County .. .. .. .. .. .. 861,800 Rateable Value (as at 1st April, 1955) .. .. .. .. .. .. £1,588,579 Estimated product of Id. rate (as at 1st April, 1955) .. .. .. .. .. £6,304 Population.—The Registrar-General’s estimate of the population of the County at mid-1955 (inclusive of members of the Armed Forces) was 297,500, and this figure is the basis of the various rates referred to in this Report. The distribution of population throughout the various Sanitary Districts of the County is shown in Table I on page 77, from which it will be seen that 143,500 persons were resident in urban areas and 154,000 in rural areas. The decrease in population in the County as a whole was 400, compared with a decrease of 1,400 in the previous year. In the County as a whole, the density of population was 0.35 persons per acre, with 2.28 per acre in urban areas and 0.19 in rural areas. Districts showing the lowest densities were, in the urban areas, Church Stretton (0.45) and, in the rural areas, Clun (0.07).