[Report 1945] / Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council.
- Cumberland County Council
- Date:
- 1945
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1945] / Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![IS All this is perhaps irrelevant to the particular heading of “Nursing in the Home,” but, when it is realised that pre- cisely the same difficulties have been experienced in main- taining a staff of district nurses working in the area, it will be realised that the two are really interlocked. If an ex- pectant mother cannot be admitted to a hospital bed through no fault of her own, she is surely entitled to be guaranteed the services of a midwife at home, yet in recent months the possibility of neither of these being available to patients in certain areas of the county has been in the picture more than once. This of course is a dreadful state of affairs. Under the National Health Service Bill, as will be seen in the appendix, the County Council has to assume very wide responsibility in the matter of domiciliary nursing. 'I'he method by which we must endeavour—I put it no higher than this—to carry out these duties, will call for the most careful examination. Clinics and Treatment Centres. The only change which has taken place during the year has been in Whitehaven, in which Borough since April 1st, 1945, the county has administered the Maternity and Child Welfare service. This has involved the transfer to the Count}' Council of the two clinics in the Borough at Sandhills Lane and at Kells. Early in 1940 the Clinic and Treatment Centre at Aspatria—the first of our standard clinics to be built—was opened as a full treatment centre. Previously it had only been used for dental clinic purposes on account of shortage of staff during the war period. Hospitals. The only changes in the hospitals in the area of which I am aware—and these of a minor nature—have taken place or are taking place at the Cumberland Infirmary. The changes have taken the form of the provision of additional hutments, and quite recently of the purchase of a large hall in which the Rehabilitation Department at the Infirmary has for the future to be housed. THE PUBLIC ASSISTANCE MEDICAL SERVICE. (a) Institutional Services. There are in the County of Cumberland the following Institutions and Hornes maintained under the ])r()visious of the Poor I.aw Act, 1939 ;—](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29133014_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
