[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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    The figures for tlie jears since 1948 are shown below: 1948. 1949 1950 1951 1952 Xiimber of (loiiiestlc helps on panel at end of vear 88 54 81 99 117 Number of cases attended during year Confinement 133 186 171 133 136 General Illness 55 127 161 213 316 Tuberculosis —- 3 5 7 Totals 188 313 335 351 459 ! Df the cases attended by domestic helps during 1952 I approximately 59% received help for three months or longer, j and 3U% ot the cases attended received help for six months I or more. In most of these cases the hel]) provided amounted i to only a few hours i)er day, but in aggregate this demand I! takes a large pro|)ortion of the domestic help time which is j available for the service as a whole. This fact(jr, together I with recent wage increases, explains why the cost of this service has liseii so slee])ly in recent years, a rise which has 1 not been followed by a commensurate imu’ease in the total 1 number of households receiving help. Domestic helps ai'e recruited by personal selection on the (part of the tlrganiser, suitable references being obtained in ! every case. No arrangements have been made for special I training faidlities for domestic helps. l](13) Health Education. 'Idle (Jounty Council contributes to the funds of the Cential Council for Health Education, and a fairly wide use MS made of the literature and posters prej)ared and distributed ( by this and other similar oi ganisations. These are distributed (by health visitors and sidiool nurses, and at Infant Welfare Centres and S(diool Clinics, 1(14' Mentai> Health. i (i) A(J111iiiistration. 1(a) The Committee responsible for the mental health service r' is the Mental Health Service Sub-Cojumittee of the Health ' Committee. This Sub-Committee consists of the Chairman 11 and nine other members of the tlealth Committee. This Sub- 1 Committee meets ((uaiderly foi' the [lurpirse of considering ^reports on defectives and other persons and making recom- i mendations to tlo* Health (’oiiLinittee on matters affecting the I administration of the service or on any specific action to be i taken in anv individual ease. I (b) Staff. I (i) Medical. No medical ofiicers have been ^piecially appointed for work in connection with mental liealth. The duties are carried I out bv the whole-time medical staff of the health dejiartment,