[Report 1923] / Medical Officer of Health, Folkestone Borough & Port.

  • Folkestone (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1923
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Credit: [Report 1923] / Medical Officer of Health, Folkestone Borough & Port. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    5.—Summary of Nursing Arrangements. Professional Nursing: in the Home. (a) General.—No provision is made for general nursing either by the County Council or the Local Authority. The Folkestone District Nurses Fund provide a nurse, and also the St. Saviour’s Mission, application for whom is made through the doctor attending or through a member of the Committee. (b) For Infectious Diseases, e.g., Measles, Whooping Cough and Diarrhoea Epidemic.—The services of the two Health Visitors and three School Nurses are available in the event of occurrences of these diseases. These Nurses are provided by the Local Authority. Midwives.-—^The inspection of Midwives and other activities under the Midwives Act, 1902—1918, are admini- stered by the Kent County Council. Midwives practising within the district are eight in num- ber. With the exception of provision in certain necessitous cases, when an allowance of 21s. is made towards the mid- wife’s fee, they are not provided or subsidised by the Public Health Authority. Clinics and Treatment Centres. (a) Maternity and Child Welfare Centre at the Public Health Department in Foord Road.—^The Assistant Medical Officer of Health attends on Thursdav afternoon in each week for consultation. The Health Visitors, Mrs. Sievwright and Miss Collier, attend daily to give advice, etc. At the Centre two rooms are available, one for the con- sulting room, the other for undressing and weighing the babies the central hall being used as a waiting room where mothers are able, through the generosity of the ladies of the Welfare Committee, to obtain refreshments. The Centre is provided by the Health Committee of the Local Authority. The following arrangements have been made with a view to giving facilities, m needful cases, in obtaining proper at- tention at childbirth, viz.:— (a) In abnormal cases attended by midwives, the Kent County Council authorises the calling in of a doctor, and the fee; will be paid in necessitous cases.