[Report 1928] / Medical Officer of Health, Bury County Borough.

  • Bury (Greater Manchester, England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1928
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Credit: [Report 1928] / Medical Officer of Health, Bury County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Public Health Department, Clough Street, Bury. March 11th, 1929. To llie Chairman and Members of the Education Committee, County Boi'ough of Bury. \ l.adics and Gentlemen, I beg: to submit for your consideration my Annual Report on ihe Medical Inspection of .School Children during the year ended December 31st, 1928. One change has taken place in the personnel of the staff during- 1928. Dr. Bebbington, having- obtained another appoint- ment, left to take up her duties on November 22nd. Dr. Myles F. Fallon was appointed to the vacant post and commenced work on December 3rd. The most important event of the year was the opening- of the new clinics in the W}'lde. The building- had, for some years, been used as a Tuberculosis Dispensary, and comprised an out-patient and in-patient department w-ith 16 beds. The. use of the in-patient department was discontinued oi-i March 31si, 1927, and the build- ing wL'is, later, converted t<'> its present use. The wdiole of the Corporation Clinics are now under one roof and comprise the lollowang :— School Clinics:—(a) Minor Ailments: (b) Ophthalmic; and (c) Dental. Health Department Clinics:—(a) Tuberculosis; (b) Wmereal Diseases; and (c) Maternity and Child \\elfarc. The building was opened on October 17th by Dr. Bracken- bui\. A whole-lime Dentist (Mr. J. \\’hilehouse) and Nurse (Miss aT. Broadley) have been appointed and a W’ell-equipped Hinit has becm provided. Dental lnsj)('clion and Treatment ‘•^'tually commenced on October 8ih, 1928. and a reference to