[Report 1961] / Medical Officer of Health, Merthyr Tydfil County Borough.

  • Merthyr Tydfil (Wales : County). Borough Council.
Date:
1961
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Credit: [Report 1961] / Medical Officer of Health, Merthyr Tydfil County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HOME NURSING. The nurses operating this service continue to be very hard worked, although a much greater degree of co-operation seems apparent with the General Practitioners. I am sure the Doctors are fully aware of the amount of work that the District Nurses have to cope with and except in a very few isolated cases, they have gone to some length to relieve the Nurses if it is at all possible to do so. The table below gives details of the numbers of cases attended and visits paid by the District Nurses during the year. Home Nursing Visits and Cases. Medi- cal. Surg- ical. Infect. Diseases. Maternal T.B. CompVns. Other Cases Total Cases Atten. 972 313 2 10 18 362 1677 Visits Paid 32411 14846 9 1263 188 1170 49887 The next table gives a further analysis of the cases and visits set out in the previous table. Details regarding children under 5 years and patients over 65 years and also those who had more twenty-four visits in the year are as follows :— Home Nursing—Special Classes of Patient. Patients who at time Patients who had of first visit were : more than twenty- four visits during Under 5 yrs Over 65yrs year. Cases attended .. 67 574 358 Visits paid 843 21440 23047 — :o:— HOME - HELPS. During the year, eighty home helps were employed on a part-time basis and they provided help in one hundred and thirty- five cases of chronic sickness which includes the aged and infirm. Help was also provided in fourteen other cases.