[Report 1966] / Medical Officer of Health, Swinton & Pendlebury Borough.

  • Swinton and Pendlebury (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1966
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Credit: [Report 1966] / Medical Officer of Health, Swinton & Pendlebury Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES IN THE AREA I. Services provided by the Manchester Regional Hospital Board 1. Hospitals Two hospitals are situated within the District—(a) The Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, Pendlebury, and (b) Swinton Hospital, Partington Lane, at which accommodation is provided for mentally severely subnormal children. The Borough of Swinton and Pendlebury is served in the main by the under-mentioned hospitals:— (a) General—Salford Royal Hospital; Park Hospital, Davyhulme ; Hope Hospital, Salford. (b) Infectious Diseases—Ladywell Hospital, Salford; Monsall Hospital, Manchester. (c) Maternity—Park Hospital, Davyhulme ; Hope Hospital, Salford. 2. Tuberculosis Services While certain aspects of this work, more particularly the domiciliary visiting of cases and contacts, come within the province of the Divisional Medical Officer, the Regional Hospital Board does provide the following :— (a) Chest Clinic, Hope Hospital, Salford. New cases, referred by their family doctors, attend by appointment. (b) Mass Miniature Radiography Surveys are carried out periodically in the District by the Board’s No. 4 Unit, which is based on Bolton. 3. Venereal Diseases Clinic St. Luke’s Clinic, 11, Duke Street, Liverpool Road, Manchester, 3. II. Services provided by the Local Health Authority Swinton and Pendlebury is one of the three constituent districts of Lancashire County Council Health Division No. 15 which in addition includes the Borough of Eccles and the Urban District of Worsley. The services which are provided by the County Council are as follows :— 1. Care of Mothers and Young Children : this includes ante-natal and child welfare clinics, dental care, distribution of welfare foods and day nurseries. 2. School Health Service. 3. Midwifery. 4. Health Visiting. 5. Home Nursing. 6. Vaccination and Immunisation. 7. Ambulance Service. 8. Prevention of illness, care and aftercare : this includes smear tests for cancer of the neck of the womb, chiropody, health education, loan of nursing equipment, and convalescence for those who have been ill. 9. Home Help Service. 10. Mental Health. 11. Arrangements for the welfare of blind, deaf and dumb, crippled and handicapped persons. 12. Provision of Residential Accommodation for the Aged and Infirm.
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