[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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    to assessilio' hei‘ ])riority need foi’ institutional aerommodation and arrano'onKMits exist toi* ap])TO])riate details to be obtained ail'd passed on to the liospital eoiu'erned, together with the niedi(‘al ottieor’s reeoninieiidatioii.s. (b) Nursiuf/. All doniieiliarv nurses work under the direct control of the general ])raetitioner attending the cases tliey are nursing, and as a geiitu'al rule practitioners themselves arrange for the nurse to attend a ]>atient. The work of these nurses has increased eousideriilily during re(*eiit years, due to the fact that luaiiy general practitioners arrange for the nurses to give any injections lhal may be pi'escribed. For jiatimits disidiarged from hosjiital and requiring a further jieriod of nursing in their own homes, the approach to the nurse is again usually through the general [iractitioner, though sometiimcs hospital almoners will tele]dione a request direi't lo the Foiinty health department or to the divisional health odices. The classification and numbers of tlie cases attended by District N^urses iluring ld52 was as follows: — rUironic medical cases 1,734 Sur.tih'al cases 1,188 Acute medical cases , 1,967 (’liildren 834 No night service is provided, and no arrangements are i made for district nurse training. (teiieral statistics for the domiciliary nursing and 1 midwifery seivice for the years 1949 to 1952 are shown j below;— I 1919 1950 1951. 1952. Xiimlier of domiciliarv nursing’ eas('s 3191 4674 5238 5723 Xumher of nui'sing: visits i)ai<t ; — Medical (aises 66290 73198 88416 96579 Sui’g'i(‘al eases 29299 25721 25059 22633 4'olals 86r>94 98910 113466 119212 Xumiver of doiuieiliai'y <leliveries As mulwives • 628 774 675 582 As maternitv nurses 680 418 386 395 'fotals 1398 1192 1061 977 Number of visits i^aid Aute-uatal visits 13582 12959 11983 10598 Iwiug iu visits 27011 24562 21342 20028 'Fotals 41993 37521 32425 30626 Number of iiatients given gas and air analgesia 669 657 574 621 Nuudver of nurses caiTving out Domiciliary nursing duties only 8 10 10 13 Combined nursing and midwifery duties 53 51 51 49 — Totals 61 61 61 62