[Report 1951] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottinghamshire County Council.
- Nottinghamshire County Council
- Date:
- 1951
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1951] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottinghamshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![1. Tuberculosis Service. (a) In the Domiciliar}^ Tuberculosis Service provision was made for a Scheme of Occupational Therapy in the home, and towards the end of the year an Occupational Therapist was appointed. The day-to-day operation of this work will be carried out by the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, who act as Agents of the Council in their Care and After-care functions. {b) As a further measure of prevention steps were taken in accordance with a Circular issued by the Ministry of Health to safeguard groups of young children, as far as practicable, against exposure to infection, in particular, by adults in charge of such groups. This involved measures in Children’s Homes, Residential and Day Nurseries, and similar institutions. (c) Arrangements for B.C.G. Vaccination were initiated and small scale operation was commenced towards the end of the year. The Ministry expressed the view that Local Health Authorities should carry out this work through the services of Chest Physicians who were engaged in the Authorities’ tuberculosis preventive arrangements. As the Chest Physicians concerned in the County Area were too heavily engaged in other phases of work to be able to undertake B.C.G. work effectively the Regional Hos])ital Board made additional staff provision at the Registrar level and the work was thus facilitated. (d) At the Village Settlement the important decision to appoint an experienced and skilled Business Manager, taken after prolonged consideration in 1950, was implemented. This involved taking the risk of loading the workshops with a further fairly large charge on account of staffing costs and probably on account of such re-organisation (and additional machinery) as an expert manager might require, in the hope that there would follow much better and larger output without putting any strain upon the settlers actually doing the work. By mid-year the appointment had been made and the “ General Manager,” very quickly absorbing the atmosphere of Village Settlement conditions, soon had production re¬ organised on a smooth basis and the quality of the woodwork production improved to a really competitive standard. The General Manager, Mr. A. E. Durham, had for some time previously been engaged in “ Remploy,” and was thus accustomed to working with handicapped persons and to making due allowance for their disabilities. He readily understood the special precautions necessary in dealing with tuberculous workers and accepted the principle](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29925332_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
