[Report 1972] / Medical Officer of Health, Stamford Borough.

  • Stamford (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1972
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Credit: [Report 1972] / Medical Officer of Health, Stamford Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GENERAL PROVISION QF HEALTH AND ASSOCIATED SERVICES IN THE AREA Nursing in the Home The Borough has one District Midwife, Mrs. Hudson, 36, Waverley Gardens, Stanford, Telephone: Stamford 4394, and one District Nurse/ Midwife, Mrs. Ludlow, 71, Empingham,Road, Stanford, Telephone: Stanford 3700. District Nursing duties are also carried out by Mrs. Marsden of 7, Boxer Road, littering, Telephone: Yansford 796. Welfare Foods 7/elfare Foods can be obtained from the Barn Hill Clinic at the following times - Monday to Friday: 8.45 a.m. - 12.30 p.n. 1.30 p.m. - 5*15 p*m. Health Visitors A Health Visitor's duty includes the provision of a preventive health advisory service not just to the Infant, Toddler and School Child but to the whole Family. Her work is largely uncharted which allows her to devote her time to those in greatest need of help withmedio- social problems, and to those who have difficulty with the tenets of good hygiene and infant care. Such work calls for the highest degree of tact, persuasiveness and initiative. Miss M.A. Hetherington brings a full measure of these to the work in the Borough. The routine twice weekly visits to the Family Doctors' Surgeries have proved of great value, permitting the interchange at personal level of information of common concern and to the lasting benefit of the patient and his or her family. In like manner, regular attendance at the Consultant Paediatrician’s Ward round at the Stamford Hospital has increased the value of her work and its relevance. Short of a complete attachment this modus operandi is to be encouraged wholeheartedly. Mrs P. Stevenson S.R.N. assists with her customary cheerful enthusiasm in the general duties, though primarily with the needs of the School Children. In addition to all the domiciliary aspects of the work the clinic duties at Barn Hill devolve on these two ladies and that at Deeping St James on Miss Hetherington also. It is obvious that they have too much to do.