[Report 1964] / Medical Officer of Health, Sutton Coldfield Borough.

  • Sutton Coldfield (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1964
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Credit: [Report 1964] / Medical Officer of Health, Sutton Coldfield Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    At the end of 1964, there were 18 driver-attendants three section leaders, and one Superintendent. n There are four ambulances each with double stretchers or one stretcher and five sitting cases, two sitting case cars and two dual purpose vehicles 'CfvC-,f.aeh be used*° “ny nine sitting cases or one stretcher case and five sitting cases—all vehicles are radio controlled. The miles covered during the year were 125,665, an increase of 9 062 was^dZ year’s mileage. The number of patients moved was 19,496, an increase over the previous year of 1,400. SECTION 28. N.H.S. ACT 1946 PREVENTION OF ILLNESS, CARE AND AFTER-CARE Health Education The Health Department is continually engaged in this most important aspect of preventive medicine, in the form of lectures to the various organisations m the town, accompanied by film shows and practical demonstrations and exhibitions. In our efforts on Health Education the Department tries to cover the interests of all age groups. In the last few years, particular emphasis has been laid on the teaching of school children and m 1963 a new system of teaching by Doctors, Health Visitors and 5fa Ir?spectors m the Sutton Coldfield Grammar School was started, is has been so successful that it has now been extended, and at the end u year’ after a most successful summer session, a large scale Health Exhibition was put on in the school hall covering all aspects of environmental hygiene, food and drugs, maternity and child welfare, school health, foot care and other items of health interest, including blood transfusion, bacteriology and parasitology. Furthermore, visits to places ot interest outside the school were arranged including visits to the Public Analyst and Public Health Laboratories. In addition, special efforts have been made this year in the field of education in food hygiene. Lectures and film shows have been arranged lor both the junior and senior staffs of shops in the Borough, by neighbour¬ hood. These have been extremely well attended, especially by the junior staffs, and I am grateful to the proprietors and managers of these food shops, who have kindly arranged for their staff to attend. This indicates a true interest in this subject, and I am certain that in Sutton Coldfield the food traders realise the importance of hygiene, not only from the point of view of the customer, but also in the promotion of sales. The Health Visiting staff have pursued with great keenness their efforts m the field of mothercraft, and the numbers attending lectures in the clinics, and special sessions have increased. Convalescence A period of recuperative convalescence may be arranged for persons whose Doctors consider they need it, the patient having had some acute