[Report 1954] / Medical Officer of Health, Lampeter Borough.

  • Lampeter (Wales). Borough Council.
Date:
1954
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Credit: [Report 1954] / Medical Officer of Health, Lampeter Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * - 4 - GENERAL PROVISIONS OF HEALTH SERVICES IN THE AREA These are essentially the same as in 1953* The main features are as follows:- (a) No ante-natal or post-natal clinic is held in the district by the local health authority. Expectant and nursing mothers receive medical advice from their own medical attendants, (b) An infant welfare clinic is held at Lampeter once a fortnight, (c) The domiciliary midwifery service is carried out by the district nurses who are also State Certified Midwives, (d) A health visitor covers the Lampeter area, (e) Home nursing is in the hands of the district nurses. (f) Vaccination is carried out by the person*s own medical attendant but immunisation against diphtheria is performed partly by the former and partly by medical officers of the local health authority. (g) An ambulance is stationed at Lampeter, (h) Arrangements for the prevention of illness consist in periodic talks and advice given by medical officers and the health visitor of the local health authority. Care and after-care is in the hands of the district nurses and of the health visitor. Tuberculosis cases are also followed up by the Chest Physician's health visitor. (i) Domestic help is provided by suitable persons engaged locally. (3) The borough of Lampeter lies almost mid-way between the towns of Aberystwyth and Carmarthen in both of which general hospitals exist. The former is under the aegis of the Mid-Wales Hospital Management Committee and the latter under its West Wales counterpart. Public health laboratories of the Medical Research Council are also to be found in both centres. The infectious diseases* hospital for the area is at Tanybwlch, close to Aberystwyth. (k) The central core of the Health Services is still the general practitioner. There are four doctors providing general medical services in the borough.