[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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    REGISTRATION OF NURSING HOMES. No new certilieates of registration were issued during the year. At the end of the year there were tour homes regustered providing' l)eds os lo'llow,s:—- Medical a,ml surgical Maternity ‘d5 h’ouj' huudred and seventeeu patients were admitted to 1 these homes during Ihe y('ar, 35(S of whom were maternity ■ eases, whilsi were medical ami 3(> c(mvalesceiit oi' (diroiiic. NURSERIES AND CHILD MINDERS REGULATION ACT, 1948. This Act requires that every local Health Authority shall j keep registers: — (a) of premises in their area, other than ])remises wholly or mainly used as private dwellings, where children are received to be looked after for the day or a subslanlial part thereof or for any longer period not exceeding 6 days; ih) of i)ersons (reteried lo as daily minders) in their area . w h o for lew a I'd receive into (heir homes idiildren ' under the age of hve lo he looked after as aJore- said. Premises at Cnttingham providing accommodation for 1 40 children, and hve daily mindei's. are registered, NATIONAL ASSISTANCE ACT, 1948. I am indebted to the County Welfare Officer for the ( following re|K)rt upon the duties carried out under the I National Assistance Act: — 1 i As from 1st Ajiril, 105:^, the (Council decided to set up 3 a separate elfare (nnninittee, and the W eli'are Department. i which deals with all work under tlie National Assistance Act, i is now responsible to the W elfare Committee, and not to the I Health Committee. The followu'ng statement regarding the f work of the \Velfare Department is sulunitted for inclusion i in the County Medical ()tficer\s Report for general infoima- I tion and because the W elfare and Health Services are in so i many ways complementary. The National Assistance Act, 1948, provides for the i establishment In the Council as a welfare autlioritv of two ' main services: — (1) Accommodation. (a) residential accommodation for persons wdio, by reason of age, inhrmitv or any other circumstances are in need of care and attention which is not otherwise available to them; (b) temporary accommodation for persons who are in urgent need thereof, being need arising in circum- stances which could not reasonably have been foreseen or in such other circumstances as the authority may in any particular case determine.