[Report 1949] / Medical Officer of Health, Bebington Borough.

  • Bebington (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1949
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Credit: [Report 1949] / Medical Officer of Health, Bebington Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Section 24—Health Visiting. This work is carried out by a Senior Health Visitor, six assistant Health Visitors and one School Nurse. During the year, 14,810 home visits were made by the Health Visitors, including after-care visits. When it is realised that a considerable time is spent by these Health Visitors on clinical sessions, the total number of visits paid is very satisfactory and has been made possible by improved transport for this section of the department. Visitors are now using their own cars and the section has on hire from the Bebington Corporation one small car. Given even greater mobility, I am certain that still more visits could be paid by these Visitors and a higher standard of home care thus achieved. Section 25—Home Nursing. The Committee was fortunate in finding a full Home Nursing Service available in the Division in that the areas of (1) Bebington and New Ferry, (2) Higher Bebington, (3) Bromborough and (4) Eastham, were each covered by a District Nurse employed by the Voluntary District Nursing Associations, which in one case had for over sixty years provided a con- tinuous service of home nursing to the sick of Bebington. It is a matter for congratulation to the Associations for their solid work in the past that the Division was enabled to take over a full and well-equipped service. The four district nurses, one of whom has part of her work allotted to the midwifery services of the Division, continue at the request of general practitioners to serve people in the Division needing home nursing, and the following are the statistics relevant to their work for 1949 :— New Cases in 1949. Visits Paid in 1949. 647 24,979 Referred to hospital .. .. 64 Deaths .. .. .. .. 103 During the year the amount of £24 15s. Od. was expended inlaying a concrete path to the Nurse’s house, being the property of the County Council, in Higher Bebington. Section 26—Vaccination and Immunisation Service. With the Committee’s approval, arrangements were made in August, 1948, for the attendance at Clinics of General Practitioners for the vaccination of children against smallpox, and for immunisation against diphtheria and whooping cough. This scheme did not interfere with patients who preferred to avail themselves of the services provided by the General Practitioners ar their respective surgeries. The Clinics were, however, postponed at the end of July, 1949, and great difficulty has therefore been experienced in compiling anything like true statistics for the year. The service was re-instituted by Ministry of Health agreement with the doctors at the beginning of 1950, but records for the period August to December, 1949, of vaccination and immunisation carried out privately by the general practitioners were not supplied to me until