[Report 1949] / Medical Officer of Health, Pembrokeshire County Council.

  • Pembrokeshire (Wales). County Council.
Date:
1949
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Credit: [Report 1949] / Medical Officer of Health, Pembrokeshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Peinbroke Dock. iMcyrick Hospital— Friday, . 10.15 a.m. Clinic and A.P. Relills. (New cases by a])- pointinent). Tenby. Cottage Hospital 1st and 3ril Fridays, ... 2.00 p.ni. New and old patients. Milford Haven. Nurses’ Home— 2nd and 4th Fridays, 2.00 p.in. New and old patien ts. B. MENTAL ILLNESS OR DEFECTIVENESS. I he general supervision is under tlie direction of (he County Medical Ollicer and the medical stall of the County Health Department. C. OTHER TYPES OF ILLNESS. Hospitals notify (he County Health Dejiaitment of all impending discharges of patients retiuiring home nursing or care of any descrip- tion. ThLs information is passed on to the local district nurses or health vi.sitors and any treatment required by these or any other invalids will be undertaken by them under the medical supervision <)f the patient's own doctor. The Authority intend to develoji heal h education in the area by all ajipropriate means. D. VENEREAL DISEASE. Persons under treatment for venereal tlisease :md also those known or believed to be sources of venereal infection are follo\>'ed up by the metlical stall of (he County Health De^iartment who work in close association with Medical Ollicers of the venereal disease treatment centres to which patients from this Countv are sent, and with approved local medical prac.ltioners who undertake the treatment of venereal disease in this County. riie (ieneral Practitioner Ser\'ice has continued unchanged, and prf)vldes patients with treatment hicililies within a reasonr.b.e distance of their homes. A visitine \'enerealogist supervises the work and act as consuliant when required.