[Report 1926] / Medical Officer of Health, Fife County Council.

  • Fife (Scotland). County Council
Date:
1926
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Credit: [Report 1926] / Medical Officer of Health, Fife County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HOUSING. ] The number of houses completed during the year within the District | was 168 and comprised 164 built with the aid of the Government subvention and 4 built by private enterprise. Of the houses built with the aid of Government subsidy, 20 were of two apartments, 141 of three apartments and 3 of 4 apartments. The four houses built by i private enterprise without subsidised aid were of six or more apart-1 ments each. The District Committee undertook no additional housing during the \ year. MATERNITY SERVICE AND CHILD WELFARE. Detailed reports of the health-visiting and midwifery work during] 1926 within the District have been submitted to the District Com-] mittee, the Board of Health and the Central Midwives Board. The Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme administered by the Dis- trict Committee covers the Landward Area of Dunfermline District and , the Burghs of Culross and Inverkeithing. The nursing staff continues the same, viz. :—Nurse Robertson, Eastern area ; Nurse Roy, Central area, inclusive of Inverkeithing ; and Nurse Petrie, Western area, \ inclusive of Culross. The work may be summarised baldly thus :—The total births I within the welfare area in 1926 numbered 915 of which 908 were I notified, there being only 7 omissions to notify. Still-births numbered! 44, premature 31 ; there were 12 plural births. The births of 602 1 children were attended by doctors, 311 by mid wives and 2 by neithei i doctor nor midwife. Of the houses visited by the nurses, 756 were described as “ clean,’ 131 as “ indifferent,” and 19 as “ dirty.” The number of visits paid by the nurses was :—Expectant mothers j 789, infants and nursing mothers 9,151, children aged 1-5 years 3,763 Visits made by the nurses as Assistant Inspectors of Midwives numberec 66 and as Tuberculosis Nurses in the supervision of tuberculous patient1 under treatment in their own homes 616. The year proved, as a result of the six-months stoppage in coal mining, a particularly strenuous one for the Maternity and Chile Welfare Staff. On 4th May, the District Committee resolved to ac in the industrial crisis on lines similar to those they had adopted witl success during the coal-mining strike of 1921 and the supply of nourish ment to the dependents of unemployed miners at the cost of the Dis trict Committee became more or less general in ten days to a fortnigh as the unemployed seemed to have little to come or go upon.
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