[Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, Carmarthenshire County Council.

  • Carmarthenshire (Wales). County Council. no2003000265.
Date:
1958
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Credit: [Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, Carmarthenshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Follow-up of Registered Blind and Partially Sighted Persons Cause of Disability Cataract Glaucoma Retrolental Fibroplasia Others (i) Number of cases registered during the year in respect of which Section F. 1 of Form B.D.8 recommends :— (a) No treatment .. 15 3 20 (b) Treatment (medical surgical or optical) 12 5 — 4 (ii) Number of cases at (i) (b) above which on follow-up action have received treatment 11 5 — 4 Ophthalmia Neonatorum : (i) Total number of cases notified during the year—1. (ii) Number of cases in which :— (a) Vision lost 1 (b) Vision impaired y Nil (c) Treatment continued at end of year J Epileptics and Spastics There are no arrangements catering for the special welfare needs of adults suffering from Epilepsy or Cerebral Palsy. The County Welfare Committee, however, bear the maintenance fees in respect of six epileptics at Homes for Epileptics, and one old poliomyelitis case at a Home for Cripples. MILK CONTROL The number of animals slaughtered under the Tuberculosis Order, 1925, during the past five years is as follows :— 1954 .. .. •• 1 1955 .. .. •• Nil 1956 .. .. •• Nil 1957 .. .. •• Nil 1958 .. .. • • Nil The enforcement of regulations relating to Raw Milk is the re- sponsibility of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries [Milk (Special Designations) (Raw Milk) Regulations, 1949]. Under the Milk and Dairies Regulations, 1949, responsibility for the registration of dairy farms and of persons carrying on the tiade of daily farmer falls on the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Local Authorities retain responsibility for dairies which are not daily faims and of dairymen who are not dairy farmers, and for the enforcement ol the regulations relating to diseases communicable to man.