[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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    Just under 50% of the cases nursed are aged over 05 and 00% of the visits are made in tlie nursing care of such ])atients. For tlie younger patients the nursing service is frequently in the form of injections as well as bed nursing, and a nunil>er of diabetics depend on the nurse’s attendance for their maintenance insulin. There has been no development in the promotion of a sick children’s nursing service. Such cases are nunsed in the course of the round of duty, and while not every district nurse is a (pialificd sick children’s nurse, it is the leaven in the lunq) to have such cases in a nurse’s round. TABLE VII Types of Case Medical Cases Surgical Cases Cases ofT.B. others Cases Nursed Total Visits Cases Over 65 Visits to Patients Over 65 The year 1950 346 125 3 — 474 11,682 . „ 1951 427 1.30 16 1 574 15,784 — — „ „ 1952 -383 124 13 22 542 16,705 — — „ 195.^ 527 105 21 1 654 16,016 — — „ „ 19.54 519 114 22 2 657 17.151 253 10,299 „ ,, 1955 565 109 31 2 707 17,383 351 11,444 TOTAL 2,767 707 106 28 3,608 94,721 604 21,74.3 Vaccination and Immunisation. The following table gives the year’s progress. While wo maintain progress on vaccination it is disturbing to note a decline in diphtheria immunisation. While primary immunisations rei)resent numericalE’ the equivalent of fn’e out of every six new- born in the year, the booster dosing in later years is lapsing badlv, and measures will be taken to achieve a better overall level of diphtheria protection during 1056. B.C.O. Vaccination of 1‘1-year-olds was introduced during the yeai. The figures are given earlier in this report under Tuber- cmlosis, and mention is also made of it in the School Health vService report in later pages. inoculation was introduced during the year with .linistiy of Health approval. It is given in a combined vaccine in early years and also witli the dijihthcria booster dose at age 5, where requested.