[Report 1968] / Medical Officer of Health, Aberdeen City.

  • Aberdeen (Scotland). City Council.
Date:
1968
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    16.—PREVENTION OF BREAK-UP OF FAMILIES. {Dr. J. M. Wallace, Principal Assistant M.O., and Miss M. Nairn, Chief Nursing Officer.) Because many parts of the public health services, both preventive and sup- portive, help to prevent or reduce the break-up of families, only certain specific matters relating to multi-problem families are here considered. The Co-ordinating Committee on Neglected Children continued to function, providing a forum for inter-departmental discussion by administrators on matters of policy. The Case Conferences on the other hand function at field-work level and bring together the various workers (again from various departments and services) immediately concerned with individual cases under review. The Co-ordinating Committee met on 9 occasions. Case Conferences were held on 32 occasions, with 67 separate discussions on the problems of 30 different families (comprising 21 cases under review from last year, 3 cases previously referred to the Co-ordinating Committee, and 6 new cases). In the course of the year 9 cases were closed—three referred to the Co-ordinating Committee were left with the field-workers concerned, three showed definite improvement, in two cases the children involved were taken into care, and one case left town. Thus there remained at the end of the year 21 cases under review at Case Conference level. The useful arrangement was continued whereby all Corporation tenants in arrears of rent are notified to the Health and Welfare Department, so that the health visitor may advise on household management, including budgeting. 17.—PREVENTION OF ILLNESS, CARE AND AFTER-CARE. (Dr. D. P. Brunton and Dr. J. M. Wallace.) (A) TUBERCULOSIS. (a) Features of the Year. The resumed downward trend in notification of Tuberculosis has continued to such extent that the previous record low total of 60 notifications (in 1964) was eclipsed. In 1968 new notifications of all forms of tuberculosis numbered only 53, comprising 49 respiratory and 4 non-respiratory, as compared with 62 in 1967 when there were 54 respiratory and 8 non-respiratory notifications. During the year under review there were eight deaths from all forms of tuberculosis as compared with five in 1967.