[Report 1952] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, East Riding of Yorkshire County Council.

  • East Riding of Yorkshire (England). County Council
Date:
1952
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Credit: [Report 1952] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, East Riding of Yorkshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    For each Health Division there is appointed a Divisional Medical Officer, who, througdi his Divisional Healtl) Office, administers on behalf of the County Medical Officer the healtli services einiinerated below. In addition, the Divisional Medical Officer administers the routine school health services for his Division and will eventuall^^ also act as Medical Officer of Health for each of the County Districts witliin his divisional area. At ])resent the following- District Councils are still served by ])art-time Medical Officei-s of Health, viz.: — Hornsea H.D., Withernsea F.D., Dridling-ton K.D., Derwent R.D., Holderness D.D., and Howden H.D. The health services administered by tlie Divisional Medical (Jfficers are as follows: — (1) The service for the rare of mothers and young- (diildi-en exre])t foi- the dental service for mothers and young* childi'en, and tlie service for the care of unmai-ried mothers. (2) The vaccination and immunisatiou service. (3) The liealth visitor service. (4) The (lomiciliai-y midwifery and district nursing- services so far as the 'day-to-day administration of these servi(’es is conceriied. (b) The cai'e and after-care service. The ambulance, domestic hel]) and mental health sei-vices are still administered on a County basis, Imt Divisional Medical Officei's have certain local duties in connection with each of these services. One assistant medical officei* is allocated to each Division to helj) the Divisional Medical Officer in the cai-rying- out of the routine genei-al and school hea'lth service duties in hi,s Division. In addition the establishment allows for one more assistant medical officer who would be attached to the head- quarters staff at County Hall, but this post is, at present, only filled on n part-time basis, the offic'er (‘onceined carrying- out routine work in the Holderness health divisional area. The post of De])uty County Medicail Officer is not at present filled by a standing deputy, arrangements being- made for the Divisional Medical Officer of the Holderness Health Division to act as Deputy County Medical Officer when reipiired. This arrangement has been operative for the last eighteen months and is made possible by the fact that the Divisional Medical Offi(‘er has his a'dministrative centi-e in BcA^erley adjacent to County Hall. The arrangement, has AAU) r Iv e d s u c c e ss fully. The div isional administrative arrangements have only recently been com])leted by the appointment of a Divisional Medical Officer for the Haltenij)rice Division, and wei-e not fully operative so far as this Division is concerned until the beginning- of D)o3. Furthermore, the ,scheme, as a whole, can- nof ot course fumdion in co!m])leteness' until the tiiine ai-i'ives when the v'oi’k of the medical officei-s of heaitli, at present performed in some County Districts by imrt-time officers, is undertaken by the Divisional Medical Officers, These factors