[Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Durham County Palatine / County Council.

  • Durham (England : County). Council.
Date:
1938
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Credit: [Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Durham County Palatine / County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The above amounts include grants made through the County Nursing Association of £10 up to 10,000 population and £5 per additional 5,000 population to affiliated district nursing associations undertaking the nursing of cases of measles, whooping cough, epidemic diarrhoea, ophthalmia neonatorum, tuberculosis and pohomyehtis in .young children. MIDWIVES ACT, 1936. For the purpose of the provision of an adequate service of certified midwives who would be available within the area for attend- ance on women within their own homes as midv/iVes or maternity nurses, as required by the above Act, the area administered by the County Council as the Local Supervising Authority, i.e., the Ad- ministrative County less the Municipal Borough of Stockton-on- Tees, has been divided into the following two groups of areas. The County Council scheme came into operation on the 1 st October, 1937. The statement following is a sfightly amended repetition of the statement for the previous year. Geoup I. Areas served by District Nurse-Midwives employed by District Nursing Associations. Name of District Association. Area served. No. of Nruse- Midwives employed. Barnard Castle and Parishes of Barnard Castle (Urban), Streat- Startforth. lam and Stainton, Westwick and Marwood 2 Burnhope Colliery ... Burnhope, Peartree, Holmside and Jaw Blades 1 Burnopfield ... Burnopfield, including Hobson, Lintz, Friarside, Mountsett and Leazes 2 Butterknowle Parishes of Lynesack and Softley, and Evenwood and Barony ... 1 Castle Eden ... Parishes of Castle Eden, part of Hutton Henry and part of Monk Hesleden 1 Castletown ... North Hylton and Castletown 1 Cockfield Parish of Cockfield ... 1 Craghead Craghead, Holmside, Bloemfontein, Black- house. Council Houses, Edmondsley 2 East Hetton Old Cassop, Quarrington Hill and East Eggleston and Hetton 2 Romaldkirk Parish of Eggleston 1 I I