[Report 1956] / Medical Officer of Health, Oxford City.
- Oxford (England). City Council. no2012034102.
- Date:
- 1956
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1956] / Medical Officer of Health, Oxford City. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![disadvantage of the arrangement is that her records are less easily accessi¬ ble centrally if needed quickly j it might also be argued that the reduced personal contact with her colleagues is a disadvantage. 6. Breast feeding The superintendent health visitor continued to keep lecords (ex¬ tracted from the health visitors’ cards) of the incidence of breast feeding. Of the babies born in Oxford from July 1955 to June 1956 and still here when they were six months old (1010 babies) the proportion on different types of feeding was as follows: At about two months:— Entirely breast . . • . • • • • d0% Breast and bottle . . .. • • • • , Entirely bottle .. .. • • • • 53% At about five months:— Entirely breast . . . . • • • • 28% ] Breast and bottle . . . . . . • • 3% j Entirely bottle .. • • • • • • 59% These are disappointing figures, particularly as the proportion of babies entirely breast fed both at 2 months and 5 months was 8% lower than the average of the previous four years. It will not be possible to keep records in this way in future, because the decentralisation of the records of several health visitors complicates the matter too miicn. Des¬ pite the low incidence of breast feeding every effort is still made to en¬ courage mothers to persevere. W hen difficulties occur frequent \isits are paid by health visitors, and if it seems advisable test-feeding scales are loaned for use in the home. This occurred on 189 occasions in 1956. 7. Co-operation with hospitals Co-operation with the maternity departments, the paediatric depart¬ ment, the diabetic clinic and the venereal diseases clinic has continued very satisfactorily on exactly the same lines as were described in the report for 1954 and 1955. 8. Co-operation with general practitioners This has also continued along the same lines as before. 9. The assisted training scheme for health visitors The four students who began the course in September 1955 all obtained their Health Visitors’ Certificate in April 1956. 10. Refresher courses One health visitor attended, as her refresher course, the Summer School run by the Royal College of Nursing in Edinburgh.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29942597_0037.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
