Report of the Director-General of Public Health, New South Wales.
- New South Wales. Department of Public Health
- Date:
- [1962]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report of the Director-General of Public Health, New South Wales. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![PURE FOOD ADMINISTRATION Table IV—Pure Food Inspections, Seizures, Prosecutions and Fines—1962 Category of Work carried out Number Inspections and Complaints. 1^64 Hotels (Liquor). ’ 40 Seizures .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ] Samples .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 194 Notices served. 211 Prosecutions . 75 Fines and costs.£747 10s. There has been little increase in the work of Pure Food Administration in 1962 because the Western Health District is a large one and it cannot be adequately inspected by one Senior Food Inspector. TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL Tuberculosis control continued to proceed smoothly since decentralisation in 1961. There were still minor administrative and procedure difficulties but these were being eliminated. Table V—Tuberculosis Control Work—1962 Category of Work carried out Number New cases discovered. • • • • 30 Total number of patients . • • • • 3,784 Total number of attendances. • • • • 6,628 Number of visits.. . • • • • 2,202 Mantoux tests . • • • 434 B.O.G. .. .. •• .. •• •• •• • • . • 61 On books number of arrested cases .. 7 MATERNAL AND BABY WELFARE The work of the Division of Maternal and Baby Welfare in the Western Health District was decentralised in May, 1962, and an Assistant Nurse Inspector was appointed. Forty-five Baby Health Centres in the Western Health District were taken over. The Medical Officer of Health accompanied the Assistant Nurse Inspector on the initial inspections of as many of the Baby Health Centres as possible; twenty-seven Clinics were inspected in the second half of the year. The attendance figures for Baby Health Centres in the Western Health District from July to December, 1962 are given below:— Table VI—Attendances at Baby Health Centres—July-Dec., 1962 Visits to Hospital visits Home visits Centre by Sister by Sister 37,154 504 848 PUBLIC RELATIONS An innovation during 1962, was the circulation to all Radio Stations in the area of tape recorded short talks on Public Health by Officers of the Western Health District. These talks appeared weekly on each Radio Station. At the end of the year, a start was made on a monthly series of television appearances on Channel 8 C B N Orange The Medical Officer of Health spoke on Baby Health Centres and the School Medical Service. Television appearances are more complicated and tune consuming than Radio talks. Twn Health Insoector’s Conferences were held at Wellington and Dubbo. Subjects discussed Jy° p p,?h1ic Health Law' Control of Tuberculosis in Dairy Herds; and Agricultural dfser T Sferen^s - -attended, many delegates travelling long distances to be present. P 35731—11](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31485534_0163.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
