[Report 1968] / Annual Report of the Divisional Medical Officer, Cheshire County Council.

  • Cheshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1968
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Credit: [Report 1968] / Annual Report of the Divisional Medical Officer, Cheshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Sheldon report on 'Child Welfare Centres’ publisned in 3967 made the following principal recommendations:- (1) Infants should have a routine medical examination on first attending the clinic, again at six months and at aoout the time of each birthday 'until the fourth. These routine examinations should coincide with tests for specific handicaps. (2) The Doctor and Health Visitor must continue to advise on infant nutrition and hygiene. (3) Every effort should be made to develop Health Education activities within the centre. (4) Doctors working in the centres require an understanding of the psychology of the family and should be able to give the time to listen to the anxieties of parents. (f) The Doctor and Health Visitor have a unique part to play in the detection and management of emotional illness and in the counselling of parents of handicapped children. As can be seen from the above there will be a change in the function of the Child Welfare Clinic with a decrease in the routine weighing of healthy babies, and an increasing move to the prevention and early detection of emotional and physical abnormalities of the child and the family. This change is already being seen in the drop in the number of visits of children under the age of twelve months to the Child Welfare Clinics. Unfortunately there has been a decrease in the number of young children seen, but this is largely due to the shortage of suitably trained medical staff. In this connection it is pleasing to note that the County Health Department has held its first course on Developmental Paediatrics for Clinic Doctors. As can be seen the fall in the sales of Welfare Poods continued and it is pleasing to note that the County Health Committee decided that the sale of Proprietary Poods should cease. It is hoped that the sale of ’National' Welfare foods will be taken over by voluntary agencies during the coining year. The tables below give details of attendances and welfare food sales ITEW CASES TOTAL ATTENDANCES 0 - 1 Year 0 i 1 Year 1-2 Years 2-5 Years 1967 1968 1261 1968 1267 1968 1967 1968 Barnton 62 S3 991 1,044 166 176 15 27 Conterbach 17 11 130 93 32 • 37 29 29 Davenham .. .. 27 35 372 363 104 122 63 37 Hartford .. 54 78 392 571 79 90 87 62 Leftwich .. 58 53 373 420 56 86 19 33 Lostock 47 45 470 391 72 100 45 107 Middlewich 337 181 1,468 1,594 379 258 266 79 Moulton 30 30 404 276 94 105 34 19 Darland House ., 108 100 1,625 1,288 373 218 239 205 FarldTield .. 164 143 2,110 1,021 209 231 58 107 Sandiway •. 89 146 843 1,609 141 255 83 30 Tarporley .. 46 60 402 646 114 140 156 65 Weaverham ,. 136 / 76 2,071 417 385 52 266 70 Winsford 115 151 1,252 1,633 255 . 300 128 127 Winsford - Over 129 115 1,417 648 315 127 153 63 Winsford - Wharton 214 226 1,973 1,924 368 245 107 82 1 -L N 1 8 g V>1 1,533 gT7T-V ■ T 11-1 16,293 13,938 3,142 2,542 1,748 1,140