[Report 1957] / Medical Officer of Health, Canterbury Borough / City & County.

  • Canterbury (England). City & County Council.
Date:
1957
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Credit: [Report 1957] / Medical Officer of Health, Canterbury Borough / City & County. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Suppi^Y OF Other Nutrients and vSuppeements. In addition to the Ministry’s Welfare Foods' the Authority has available for purcliase at the Welfare Clinics a variety of pro- prietary dried milks, weaning supplements and vitamin prepara- tions, sold at reduced cost to mothers attending the clinics, subject to the advice or guidance of the doctor in attendance. Help where necessary is given to cases of financial hardship by the free issue of milk foods. vSpeciae Ceinic Sessions. The Health Visitors can make special arrangements to inter- view or advise mothers at the Central Clinic which is the centre from which they all work. Seventeen mothers were so heli>ed with breast feeding difficulties or doubts by test feeding and weighing. Premature Infants. The equipment described in the 1952 Annual Report is kept for use in the home care of premature infants. Eighty-eight premature births were notified in 1957 of whom 10 were delivered af home and 78 in hospital. Of the latter only 25 w'ere Canterbury cases, making a total of 35 premature births out of 463 live births or 76 per 1,000 live births. (67 per 1,000 in 1956). Other Provisions. There are no day or residential nurseries in the City. No child minders are registered. There is one nursery school run by the Eocal Education Authority at Diocesan and Payne Smiths School. The Senior Health Visitor continued to act as Child Life Protection visitor during 1957 but since April, 1958, this duty has been taken over by the officers of the Children’s Department. There is a mothers’ club run in conjunction with the London Road Child Welfare Clinic. Most of the churches have active Young Wives’ Groups, and an\’ invitation to si>eak to these groups is accepted as an opportunit}'^ for the promotion of health educa- tion. A self-gathered audience on its home ground listening of its own free will is already half-way to receptivity. Dental Care—84 se.ssions were held in the Central Clinic for priority dental care of mothers and pre-.school children. These sessions run on Wednesda\' afternoon at the time of the Antc- Natal Clinic and on Thunsday afternoons at the time of the Child Welfare Clinic, in an equipi'>ed surgery in the Central Clinic. Approximately 100 were referred for examination. The following tables .show the numbers provided witli dental care and the forms of dental treatment ])rovided ; —