[Report 1968] / Medical Officer of Health, Grimsby County Borough.

  • Great Grimsby (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1968
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Credit: [Report 1968] / Medical Officer of Health, Grimsby County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Population Screening for Cancer of the Cervix.—The response to this service continued to be disappointing and only 437 women were examined at the local health authority clinics as compared with 638 last year. The number carried out by the general practitioners is not readily available, but from all reports many more women should avail themselves of the service. Every effort is made by the nursing staff and others to publicise the facts about cervical cytology especially among the middle-age group with large families and lower incomes who are considered to be most at risk. The findings were as follows :— Number of smears 434 Breast examination only 3 Trichonoma infection 19 Doubtful 8 Positive 2 Other 1 HEALTH EDUCATION A total of 24 lectures and talks were given to local organisations on various aspects of Public Health and Health Education, 15 by the Medical Officer of Health, one by the Deputy Medical Officer of Health, 5 by the Principal Nursing Officer, 2 by the Chief Public Health Inspector and one by a Health Visitor. Attendances at these meetings totalled 759. The health visitors also gave lectures on health education to the junior members of the local branch of the British Red Cross Society. Programmes of social and educational contents were carried out at the twice monthly meetings of the Parents’ Club, held at one of the infant welfare centres. The Committee of this Club continues to be both active and self-supporting. Health education was again carried out among the school population by the health visitors and school nurses, details of which are included in the School Health Service Section of this Report. A course of lectures on Food Hygiene commenced in January at the Grimsby College of Technology for employees of food shops, catering premises and food manufacturing premises, with a view to taking the Certificate of the Royal Society of Health in “ Hygiene of Food Retailing and Catering.” Seventy-six students enrolled for this course which consisted of two classes on Tuesday afternoons for “ day release ” students and one class on a Thursday evening. The lectures were given by the Deputy Chief Public Health Inspector, assisted by a Principal District Inspector. The oral examination was followed a year later by the written examination and it is pleasing to report that seventy out of the seventy-six candidates passed the examination. In view of the vast increase in food production in factories in this area, it is felt that this type of course will in future achieve better conditions in the manufacture and handling of food. Full use has again been made of the publicity material of the Central Council for Health Education and of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, the local health authority subscribing to both bodies, and Better Health journals were distributed monthly through the usual channels.
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