[Report 1930] / Medical Officer of Health, York City.

  • York (England). City Council
Date:
1930
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Credit: [Report 1930] / Medical Officer of Health, York City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The present composition of the local roll is as follows:— TABLE 35. At date, 31st March, 1930. Total. Trained. Untrained. Married. Widow. Single. Aged under 50. ' 50—60. GO—70. Over 70. In active practice as a midwife 18 16 9 1 1 10 10 5 3 — Doing very little 5 4 1 4 — ] 4 1 — — Working almost entirely as a maternity nurse 2 2 — — 1 1 1 1 Working in Institutions / hr / — — — 7 / 1— -— — Totals 32 29 3 11 2 19 22 7 •3 — Of the above— Three were admitted to the roll as having been in practice prior to 1905. The following notifications were received from the certified midwives during the year 1930 :— Notices of intention to continue in practice ... ... ... 32 Of sending for medical help in emergencies ... ... ... 158 Of preparing a dead body for burial ... ... ... ... 7 Of artificial feeding ... ... ... ... ... ... 21 Of death of mother or child ... ... ... ... ... 12 Of attendance at still-births (under C.M.B. rules). 17 Ditto ditto (under Notification of Births Act) 31 Of liability to be a source of infection ... ... ... 5 Midwives Act, Section 14, medical emergency calls:—The total fees so paid during the year ending 31st March, 1931, amounted to £135 7s. 6d., and £73 8s. Od. was recovered from patients. INFANT PROTECTION. Section 2 (a) of the Local Government Act, 1929, provided that, as from 1st April, 1930, the functions under Part 1 of the Children Act, 1908, formerly discharged by poor law authorities, should be discharged by the councils of counties and county boroughs. The Medical Officer, Chief Sanitary Inspector, Deputy Chief Sanitary Inspector and the three Health Visitors were appointed Infant Protection Visitors for the purposes of Part 1 of the Children Act, 1908. Four ladies, who