[Report 1955] / Medical Officer of Health, Canterbury Borough / City & County.

  • Canterbury (England). City & County Council.
Date:
1955
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Credit: [Report 1955] / Medical Officer of Health, Canterbury Borough / City & County. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Healfh Visiting. Thc‘ staff is uiicUaiigcd from that reported iu 1954, being 4 healtli visitor/school nurses, one school and clinic nurse and a shared tuberculosis health visitor eriuivalent to ^ full-time. r/.v//5 to Infants and Children— 1954 1955 Under 1 year—P'irst Visits 447 421 Other Visits ... 1,880 1,909 1-5 years —Total Visits \lsits to Expectant Mothers— ... 4,024 0,845 First Visits . ... 112 149 Other Visits 27 89 Child Life Protection Visits ... 90 40 Visits to Old Persons ... 94 .044 (Visits to cases of Infectious Disea.se figures above). are included in the The figures for the Tuberculosis Health Visitinc arc as follows : 1954 1955 No. of Clinic Sessions 102 109 No. of Refill Clinics 48 59 No. of iMantoux Te.st Clinics ... 41 40 No. of Home Visits 670 017 Contacts .seen .008 042 The Health Visitors maintain record cards for old people visited. One of their number sits on the Old People’s Welfare Committee. Tuberculosis Health Visiting is centred on the Chest Clinic and an arrangement has been come to with the Chest Physician to prevent duplication of visiting by Health Visitor and vSanitarv Inspector. vSo far there is no arrangement to associate Health Visitors with general medical practitioners’ surgeries and it is difficult to see how this could be done as the doctors’ patients are spread over the town. The Health Visitors res])ond to all requests from the family doctors to help with any case and follow the jiractice of approaching the family doctor on any case in which such co- operation is indicated. These contacts ai^ direct between family doctor and health visitor and not through the Health Department office, and this direct contact is encouraged. Home Nursing. The Canterbury District Nursing Association continues to jtrovide a staff of four Queen’s Nursing Sisiters and one part-time relief nur.se, who work from their rooms in the Poor Priests Hos- pital (Central Clinic).