[Report 1967] / Medical Officer of Health, Anglesey County Council.

  • Anglesey (Wales). County Council. no2003102100.
Date:
1967
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Credit: [Report 1967] / Medical Officer of Health, Anglesey County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It is hoped that this will soon be followed by a reappraisal by some Colleges of Education of their existing requirements in respect of chest X-ray examinations of entrants to such colleges. Pupils at school are now Heaf tested annually, a large proportion are given B.C.G. in their thirteenth year and the incidence of new cases of tuberculosis is very low. All such college entrants are medically examined and the disease, even if present, is so successfully combated with modern chemotherapeutic agents that even qualified teachers who contract tuberculosis are not likely to be out of circulation for more than a few months. Furthermore, University students reading subjects other than Education are admitted without compulsory X-ray examina- tions of the chest. Continuation of the present requirement in respect of student teachers is an unnecessary contribution to the total radiation experience of the community and for students from rural areas where there is no easy access to a static mass miniature radiography unit, causes consider- able inconvenience with no tangible returns, which can only be circum- vented by such Local Education Authorities making arrangements at considerable expense to themselves with local hospital management committees for chest X-ray examinations by very busy consultant radiologists. The Council resolved to provide for health centres at Beaumaris, Holyhead and Cemaes. At the time of writing the necessary agree- ments regarding Beaumaris have been exchanged and one can look forward to its being operational late in 1968. Discussions have been frequent and lengthy in respect of the Holyhead project and with less success than one had hoped for. The chiropody service expanded by 25% and the meals on wheels service by 30%, compared with 1966. The home help service provided assistance for 108 new persons and 133 of those receiving help in 1966 continued to do so in 1967. This represented an expansion of 19% on the number of hours of home help provided in 1966. The monthly bulletin of information concerning local and general health matters, which was started in 1957 by Dr. G. Wynne Griffith, has been continued and distributed to all general practitioners prac- tising in the area and to some consultant physicians and surgeons.