[Report 1969] / Medical Officer of Health, Warwickshire County Council.

  • Warwickshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1969
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Credit: [Report 1969] / Medical Officer of Health, Warwickshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Before the Health Services and Public Health Act became law at the end of 1968, it was unnecessary to register persons who cared for one or two children in their own homes; since this Act became effective, however, each person who cares for an unrelated pre-schoolchild for two or more hours per day must be registered as a child minder. During 1969 the number of registrations of persons increased by 172% to 476, and the number of children concerned increased by 43 % to 2,293. Since early in 1969, in order to cover the expansion in this field, the health visitors have undertaken the post-registration visits of inspection to persons and premises concerned. The registrations on 31st December, 1969, were made up as follows :— All Day Care Sessional Care Persons Registrations Children Registrations Children Pre-School Play Groups — — 89 804 Nursery Schools — — 15 277 Day Nurseries Child Minders 5 77 (3 or more children) Child Minders 91 365 58 438 (1 or 2 children) 185 288 33 44 Total 281 730 195 1,563 Premises Pre-School Play Groups 1 35 144 3,403 Nursery Schools 1 30 9 250 Day Nurseries 2 48 1 32 Total 4 113 154 3,685 Health Visiting As shown previously in this report, the majority of health visiting staff are working in schemes of attachment or liaison with general practitioners :— 32% are working in full attachment schemes 37% are working in schemes of attachment and liaison in which there is a high degree of co-operation, with regular consultations and often shared clinics in the premises of the practice. It is generally thought that with these schemes of attachment the health visitor’s work has a greater variety. The following table shows that although a large proportion of the visits paid to people’s homes are concerned with young children, the proportion paid to older members in the community is increasing. 1963 {includes the Borough of Solihull) 1966 1969 Visits to expectant mothers 3,166 (2%) 2,733 (1-9%) 2,324 (1-6%) Visits to Children under 5 years of age 139,762 (91%) 122,713 (86-4%) 117,117 (82-4%) Visits to persons over 65 years of age. 6,456 (4-2%) 11,975 (8-4%) 15,029 (10-5%) Visits to TB households 2,530 (1-6%) 1,267 (0-9%) 770 (0-5%) Other visits 1,913 0-2%) 3,361 (2-4%) 6,885 (5%) Total 153,827 (100%) 142,049 (100%) 142,125 (100%)