[Report 1959] / Medical Officer of Health, North Riding of Yorkshire County Council.

  • North Riding of Yorkshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1959
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Credit: [Report 1959] / Medical Officer of Health, North Riding of Yorkshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    l) Convalescent Home Accommodation. Convalescent accommodation was offered to 26 individuals in 1959 as compared > 22 in 1958, 24 in 1957, 34 in 1956 and ,53 in 1955. Accommodation is found for iults and children of both sexes and is limited to a maximum stay of 4 weeks. As this Tvice is a type of holiday-rest service for those who are “ run-down,” care has to be zeroised to guard against persons using it as a means of obtaining a holiday for little r no cost. The following table gives details of admissions to convalescent homes through the bunty Council’s scheme in 1959 :— No. admitted Total Stay in days Aver. Stay in days Nett cost (excluding admini¬ stration) Convalescent Home Ad ults Chil¬ dren Cost including travelling Amount Recovered i M F M F lackburn, St. Anne’s . . 2 10 168 14 £ s. d. 149 13 8 £ s. d. 21 2 10 £ s. d. 128 10 10 earwood, Scarborough — 7 — 1 112 14 72 19 0 20 15 9 52 3 3 ;mon, Ilkley 1 — 1 — 28 14 15 8 0 2 5 0 13 3 0 hurch Army, Southport _ 2 _ 1 39 13 27 15 2 2 1 8 25 13 6 unstanton 1 28 28 33 7 10 8 4 32 19 6 EHABILITATION OF PROBLEM FAMILIES. Four mothers and 15 children were admitted during the year to the Elizabeth Fry ome, a rehabilitation and training centre at West Bank, York. Two of these families ere re-housed on discharge and made some progress. ROTECTION OF CHILDREN FROM TUBERCULOSIS. During 1959 32 employees of the Children’s Committee were surveyed in con- action with their work or proposed employment in close contact with groups of children; e cost is charged to Section 28 of the National Health Service Act, 1946. These laminations are carried out by the Mass Radiography Service when surveys are being 4d in a suitable locality ; in other cases arrangements are made with a private radiologist, ho uses full size films. In addition to the above, 204 persons employed by the Education Committee and 1 applicants for admission to a teachers’ training college were x-rayed. The co-opera- )n of the medical and technical staff of the mass miniature radiography units has been uch appreciated. As in previous years I am indebted to Dr. G. Walker, the chest tysician to the Northallerton area, for his helpful advice in doubtful cases. ealth Education. Advice on personal and environmental hygiene is freely given by health visitors nployed by the County Council to mothers with children under school age and to milies in which a clinical case of tuberculosis has occurred ; generally the advice is ifelcomed and accepted. Advice is also given on health matters at infant welfare centres ite-natal and post-natal clinics, both orally and by means of pamphlets. Members the medical staff have also given talks in their own areas as local M.O.H. ; the three bunty health inspectors have systematically dealt with the peculiar problems of food mdling in talks given to employees in the schools meals service. A film projector has ■en provided by the Council to help in this work : films are hired from time to time. Iilm strips are also provided for general use.