[Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Rutland County.

  • Rutland County Council
Date:
1947
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Credit: [Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Rutland County. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Institutions higher than in other Counties. For soma years you depended on sending cases to Voluntary Institutions chiefly the Incorporation of National Certified Institutions whose headquarters are at Bristol. Later you took a fourteenth of the available accomodation at Stretton Hall, Nr Leicester, the property of the Leicestershire County Council. You have also placed cases under guardianship of their parents and under the Guardianship Society of Brighton. At the end of the first Great War, the County Council had to provide for the treatment of Venereal Disease. At first you made arrangements with the Stamford, Rutland and General Infirmary, but tho Ministry of Health refused after some years of trial to continue approval of this institution and after a refresher course at Leicester under Colonel Blakesley, I was appointed to the post. I saw at once' that the long distances which patients had to travel was a great deterrent to its success, owing.to tho poor omnibus .service which then existed. So I decided to visit and treat the patients in their own homes in the same waw as for tuberculosis. The scheme has been very successful and was inaugurated by the most striking success of my professional life. I was called to see an unfortunate girl wasted to a shadow owing to an litter at the back of her throat which prevented her from swallowing iny food. Sho was far too ill to got up and be weighed and she :ould not have weighed 3st,71bs. She recovered completely, became a stout and healthy woman and is the mother of several healthy children. Persons who do not wish to be treated at home 'are treated at tho opon -» . - - , — ^ ^ nwiuw ai o ox c; ci tuu at tuberculosis Dispensary jsituated in my garden at Ketton, which is tor treatment on Sundays, tiondays and Thursdays. [must not omit to mention the excellent work you have performed under the Housing of Rural Workers Act, 1926-1936. Sou carried out the 7ork from the first with enthusiasm which might well have beenfi . imitated by other Cbunties, but it was thought by some that •egret! 8 unduly favoured and the Act has been repealed, to my great [ou recommended grants for the improvement of 99 houses in the Countv. If t?,teen made in 80, in 6 the works of improvement rare carries but the grants were not taken up bv tue owners In fthc£cnt??JranT h!s ?°* ]’?en made ot',inS to the u ■ a* isfactory state f tn cottage. In twelve the schemes have beer, aba;dooed and in one :ase tho renovated house was demolished by tho Air Ministry. vith the coming into force of tho Local Government Act of 1929 von °ye1LtJ?„?ppor^uPty of building new wards for the reception of the ,?.ne s.ck, which are unsurpassed in comfort by any in the Kingdom show how the work is to be apportioned to the various services. 5 administration of hospitals and specialist )n Regional Hospital Boards. This means that all • \ ! . 1 n 1 n fT I/a Min 1 n vj-fr I ✓ . 1 ~ _ _ _. 1 r- . ’ ,, - - -0ated , „ .. m --7 the County Council Managementsof the Tuberculosis and Venereal a ill act as agents for iseaso clinics. ^mi?isttation domiciliary medical, dental, and ophthalmic SiS8“hiSh UkToTtL1^The speelaUy eoistitutMecStivo jt include ?n hr? th 0fk °f tk? f?rmer Insurance Committees, pulation LSC°P? n?L?nR M?0 insured» tut the whole jpulation. What, then, is left to the Rutland County Council ?