[Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Westmorland County Council.

  • Westmorland (England). County Council.
Date:
1948
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Credit: [Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Westmorland County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Care of Premature Infants. The following table gives details of premature infants born in the County during 1948:— Premature births notified .... ... ... 54 Number of domiciliary births ... ... 12 Number who died within 24 hours ... 1 Number who survived one month ... 8 Number of hospital births ... ... ... 42 Number who died within 24 hours ... 3 Number who survived one month ... 38 REGISTRATION OF NURSING HOMES. (Sections 187 to 194 of the Public Health Act, 1936.) There were 10 registered homes* at the end of the year providing beds for 89 maternity patients and 84 other patients. They have been inspected and found to be satisfactorily run. SCHEME FOR ANTE-NATAL AND POST-NATAL MEDICAL SUPERVISION OF MIDWIVES5 CASES. Prior to 5th July, the Committee had developed a scheme under which all patients engaging a midwife employed either by a District Nursing Association or directly by the County Council, were required to receive ante-natal and post-natal supervision from their usual medical advisers. This service was designed to provide medical super¬ vision throughout pregnancy and involved an average of six medical examinations per case, for which the County Council undertook to pay the doctor a fee of £2 2s. 0d., plus mileage allowance. From the inception of the National Health Service Act a comparable service, the Maternity Medical Service, became available under Part IV of the Act, and the Council’s arrangements were terminated, although all cases booked before the appointed day were carried to completion, even though the confinement took place subsequent to that date. Altogether 266 women were supervised under this scheme during the year. DENTAL TREATMENT FOR EXPECTANT AND NURSING MOTHERS AND YOUNG CHILDREN. In their proposals under Section 22 of the National Health Service Act, the Council provided for the examination and, where necessary, treatment of all expectant and nursing mothers, and for all children from the age of two years until they came within the scope of the