[Report 1956] / Medical Officer of Health, Canterbury Borough / City & County.

  • Canterbury (England). City & County Council.
Date:
1956
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Credit: [Report 1956] / Medical Officer of Health, Canterbury Borough / City & County. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (ii) Forms of dental treatment provided : li E.xtrac- tions .A.iues hetics Fill- ings Scalings or Scaling and Gum Treat- ment Silver Nitrate Treat- ment Dress- ings Radio- graphs Dentures Provided Local General Com- plete Par- tial expectant mcl fcursing Bothers 141 4 50 35 39 8 13 12 11 hildren /nder Five 67 50 2 124 15 * 1 Repair 1 addition to existing partial. (h) Other Provisions. There are no day or residential nurseries. One child minder was registered but gave up during the year. A mothers’ club meets at the London Road Clinic in the evening monthly. Between March, 1955, and the end of Decem- ber, 1956, 24 meetings were held or visits arranged. Thirty-eight individual mothers made 280 attendances. The subjects discussed or talk about by speakers covered a wide range. These are some of them : ‘ The Art of Mothering ’ by a male psychiatric social worker; meetings on .several aspects of home craft; ‘ Preparing the Ihider Fives for School ’ by a headmaster; ‘ Sex Education of the Very Young ’; ‘ First Aid Bandaging ’ by St. John Cadets; ‘ The Work of the W.V.S. ’ by our Clinic Voluntary Workers from the W.V.S.; ‘ The Magistrate ’ by a J.P.; ‘ Fa.shion ’ by an Art School Teacher; ‘ Flower Arrangements ’ by an expert florist; and so on. This club undoubtedly meets a need, and is the thriving creation of the Health Visitors’ own efforts backed by the mothers who attend. Child Life Protection visiting continues to be covered by the Senior Health Visitor who reports direct to the Children’s Officer. Domiciliary Midwifery. The level of domiciliary confinement remains at the 50% of all births and staffing is as in 1955. The confinements in the City during the year totalled 785 and occurred as shown in the following tabulation ; — Births in Canterbury—At Home— Doctor and/or Midwife ... 226 226 Elsewhere— Nursing Home ... ... — Kent & Canterlmrv Hosiutal 559 Total 785