[Report 1967] / Medical Officer of Health, West Sussex County Council.

  • Ernest Newman
Date:
1967
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Credit: [Report 1967] / Medical Officer of Health, West Sussex County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The health education staff gave 441 talks to a total estimated audience of 29,000 persons. Films shown numbered 317 and there were 953 loans of visual aids. Health visitors attended the following health education sessions. 1966 1967 Ante-natal mothercraft and relaxation classes 342 261 Mothers’ clubs. 265 198 Schools. 211 241 Youth clubs . 38 52 Others. 278 139 Totals ... ... ... ... 1,134 891 The annual refresher course for nurses was again held at the Council’s residential conference centre, Lodge Hill, Pulborough, in April. Lectures were given on various aspects of public health work and the discussion sessions again proved popular. Mass Radiography The Mass Radiography Unit from Portsmouth continued its visits to many places throughout the County during 1967 and the Surrey Mass Radiography Unit continued to visit Crawley every week. A number of West Sussex cases were also seen at the Brighton Unit, but no separate record of these patients was kept by the Unit. Number X-rayed ^Significant pulmonary tuberculosis Primary lung cancer Male Female Totals Male Female Male Female General practi¬ tioners’ chest X-ray service: Portsmouth Unit 4,105 3,930 8,035 9t 3t 48t 9t Surrey Unit 560 538 1,098 1 1 1 General public and factory groups: Portsmouth Unit 4,325 3,241 7,566 -t -t 3t —t Surrey Unit 6,692 4,048 10,740 2 2 2 Totals 15,682 11,757 27,439 12t 6t 54t 9t * i.e. cases requiring treatment and/or close clinic supervision, t Does not include all results for last quarter. Chest Clinic Statistics The details in the next table were supplied by the chest physicians and give an account of the work of the chest clinics. At the end of the year, the total numbers of patients on the registers of the clinics in the
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