[Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Wetherby R.D.C.
- Wetherby (England). Rural District Council.
- Date:
- 1947
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Credit: [Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Wetherby R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Hospitcil accommodjition for iiornicil cases is usiuilly arranged at Hazlewood Castle iMateiiiitv Home, otherwise at Harrogate General or .Leeds IMaternit}^ 'Hospitals. Domiciliary hlidwifery is almost wliolly conducted in tlie Wetlierbv Area by the ]\Iidwives emnloved by tlie District N ursin g Associ ations. Tlie midwives make fairly good use of the O Ante Katal Clinics. Consultative iknte Natal Clinics are held each Wednesday c morning at Hazlewood Castle and although intended for tliose mothers who expect to be coniined there i liave never met the least resistance to sending other expectant motiiers for an opinion. Konic Help Service Intimately hound up with the domiciliary midwifery scryice as well as being designed to care for sick people in their own homes the number of Home Helps so far recruited falls short of requirements. Child Life Protection It is unfortunate that this phrase has come to have a punitiA^e ring about it because such is not the way in which the staff of Health visitors, who are all duly anthorised in this matter, and I regard the subject. ^\’^e appreciate approaches to assist in arranging fostering of children, in arranging adojitions and in doing wluit we can to make appropriate provision for handicapped clnldren after the age of 2 years as laid doAvn in the Education Act of 1944. On occasion Ave have been asked to advise in cases of Juvenile Delinquency. We are glad to do so, not because we make any claim to work miracles but because Ave regard it as our job to knoAV Avliere tlie Avorkers of miracles can be found. Such is a brief report on tlie Avork of the Divisional Administration in the Wetherby District during the last four months of 1947. At the time of writing tliis report our task has increased a great deal but Ave hope by steady apxilication to justify our existence in the time to come.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30267985_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
