Annual report of the Medical Health Officer / City of Winnipeg.

  • Winnipeg (Man.). Health Department.
Date:
[1960]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report of the Medical Health Officer / City of Winnipeg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2 great increase in the incidence of this disease is considered to be the result of the increase in cigarette smoking in the past three or four decades. This fact stimulated a survey of the smoking habits of Winnipeg school children by questionnaire prior to the introduction of an anti-smoking educational campaign in certain of the elementary and junior high schools. It is our hope to repeat the survey in two or three years time and to compare the results of these two surveys in an endeavour to establish if such an anti¬ smoking campaign has any effect in reducing the number of students who become habitual cigarette smokers. Early in the year, with the implementation of the Provincial Social Allowances Act all public nursing home patients became the financial responsibility of the Provincial Government. Following the introduction of this Act the Hon. George Johnson, Minister of Health, requested the Health Department to continue to provide medical care and supervision not only to all nursing home patients who are residents of Winnipeg but to all public patients in nursing homes licensed by the City of Winnipeg regardless of their resident status. It is doubtful if proprietary nursing homes will ever be an entirely satisfactory way of providing care for the chronically ill or disabled. Experience has shown that patients in non¬ proprietary nursing homes usually receive better nursing and nutritional care than patients in proprietary nursing homes. It is to be hoped that the present study of the Provincial Health Department relating to hospital facilities in Manitoba will show the need for