[Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Carmarthenshire County Council.

  • Carmarthenshire (Wales). County Council. no2003000265.
Date:
1947
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Credit: [Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Carmarthenshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The vacant post of Assistant Orthopaedic Sister was filled in the early part of the year and it was, therefore, possible to re-open the Llandebie Clinic and to increase the number of sessions held at other Clinics. Additional Clinics were also established at Kidwelly, Pontyates and Whitland. Seventeen Clinics are now functioning in the County. 879 new cases were dealt with at the Orthopaedic Clinics during the year: 560 Education, 316 Maternity and Child Welfare, 2 Public Health and one other. The Visiting Orthopaedic Surgeon made six visits to the County during the year when he held special Clinics at Llanelly, Carmarthen, and Ammanford. He examined 236 patients, of whom 75 were cases of the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee and 9 cases of the Public Health Committee. On the 31st December, 1947, there were 1,949 cases on the books of the Orthopaedic Clinics:— Education Committee ... ... 1,454 Maternity and Child Welfare Com- mittee ... ... ... 463 Public Health Committee ... ... 21 Others ... ... ... ... 11 An analysis of the Maternity and Child Welfare and Public Health cases at the end of the year, according to diagnosis, is as follows:— M. & C.W. Public Health Paralysis: Infantile 7 6 Spastic 9 2 Obstetrical Other ... Congenital Deformities 201 3 Infective Conditions of Bones and Joints 3 Non-infective conditions of Bones and Joints: Rickets 6 Other ... 3 Static or Postural Defects 233 1 Traumatic Deformities 2 2 Multiple Defects ... . . . Miscellaneous ... ... ... 5 1 Totals ... 463 21