[Report 1959] / Medical Officer of Health, Salop / Shropshire County Council.

  • Shropshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1959
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Credit: [Report 1959] / Medical Officer of Health, Salop / Shropshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Annual Report for 1959 ADMINISTRATION The work of the County Health Department is controlled by the Health Committee, certain powers being delegated to a number of Sub-Committees, the composition and duties of which are as indicated below : Health (General Purposes) Sub-Committee : Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Council ] Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Health Committee r Ex-officio Chairmen of the Nursing and Water Sub-Committees ) Ten members of the Health Committee To meet monthly to deal with day-to-day matters of urgency connected with the administration of the Local Health Services, including matters connected with the Ambulance Service; to advise the Health Committee as to the administration of the Mental Health Service; and to exercise the Council’s powers under the Milk (Special Designation) (Pasteurised and Sterilised Milk) Regula¬ tions, 1949—1953, and Sections 37—38 of the Food and Drugs Act, 1955 (Sale of designated milk by retail in specified areas). Health (Nursing) Sub-Committee : Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Council j Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Health Committee j ^x'°ffic'10 Ten members of the Health Committee Seven co-opted members nominated by the Health Committee To advise the Health Committee on the administration of the Local Health Services for the care of mothers and young children; midwifery; health visiting; home nursing; vaccination and immunisation; prevention of illness, care and after-care; domestic help; supervision of midwives; registration of nursing homes and nurses’ agencies; and investigations under the Midwives’ Acts. (This is also the Care Committee under the Council’s scheme for the care and after-care of tuberculous patients). Health (Water) Sub-Committee : Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Council Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Health Committee Ex-o fficio Nine members of the Health Committee To consider the reports of the Council’s consultant upon water supply and sewerage; to advise the Health Committee upon the exercise of their functions in relation to water supplies and sewer¬ age and, in particular, as to the making of grants under the Local Government Act, 1958, and the Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Acts, 1944 and 1951, with authority to approve schemes in principle on behalf of the County Council; and to advise the Health Committee as to the exercise of the powers and duties of the Council under the Housing Acts and the Water Acts, 1945 and 1948. National Assistance Acts, 1948—1959 : Administration under these Acts is the responsibility of the Welfare Committee of the County Council. VITAL STATISTICS To ensure uniformity and simplify comparison, the Minister of Health has requested that vital statistics relating to mothers and infants should be presented in the form given below. Some repetition is, therefore, inevitable and explanation of these statistics follows in the same order. Area of Administrative County (acres) .. .. .. .. 861,800 Rateable Value (at 1st April, 1959) .. .. .. .. .. £3,267,818 Estimated product of Id. rate (at 1st April, 1959) .. .. .. £12,946