[Report 1956] / School Medical Officer of Health, Glamorgan County Council.

  • Glamorgan (Wales). County Council. nb2014013905.
Date:
1956
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Credit: [Report 1956] / School Medical Officer of Health, Glamorgan County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    9. Health Visiting. Post Graduate Course for Health Visitors and School Nurses. [a) The seventh annual Refresher Course for Health Visitors and School Nurses held at Dyffryn House during Whit-week was attended by forty-one health visitors including ten from Bristol. The theme of the Course was Mental Health and the following is a summary of the lectures given ;— Subject. “Preventive Aspects of Mental Health”. . “Ante-Natal Care” “The Mother and Baby” . . “Deprived Children” “The Aged”. . “Mental Health and the Adolescent” “Mentally Deficient” “Vaccination and Immunisation” “The Child Welfare Centre” “Health Education and the Public” “The Health Visitor and Mental Health” Lecturer. Dr. T. J. Hennelly, Physician Superintendent, Whitchurch Hospital. Dr. Kathleen Davies, Divisional Medical Officer, Mid-Glamorgan Health Division. Dr. J. Jacobs, Consultant Paediatrician, St. David’s Hospital, Cardiff. Dr. R. T. Bevan, Deputy County Medical Officer. Dr. A. R. Culley, Medical Member, Welsh Board of Health. Dr. J. P. Spillane, Deputy Physician Superintendent, Whitchurch Hospital. Dr. T. B. Jones, Medical Superintendent, Hensol Castle. Dr. W. E. Thomas, County Medical Officer. Dr. A. E. M. Herbert, Medical Officer, Welsh Board of Health. Dr. Graham Grant, Senior Health Officer, Welsh National School of Medicine. Miss E. G. Wright, County Superintendent Health Visitor and School Nurse. A number of instructional films were shown and a visit was also paid to Hensol Castle. [h] Ten Glamorgan Health Visitors also attended a similar refresher course in September organised by the Bristol Health Department. 10. School Dental Service. The following is the report of Mr. John Young, L.D.S., R.C.S., Principal School Dental Officer :— “In commencing this report for 1956, the thought that is uppermost in my mind is the very trite saying that ‘Repetition breeds Boredom’, but this is regrettably still applicable to our staffing position and its consequent effect upon our activities. Although our small whole-time staff remained intact, we did not secure any of the longed-for additions and we experienced some changes in our sessional staff, which entailed careful planning to ensure that areas did not suffer too much in the revision of our arrangements. At the end of 1956 the number of our dental staff, including that of the Rhondda Excepted area, was unchanged and consisted of six whole-time dental officers and twenty-two part-time officers. It is hoped that a new whole-time dental officer will commence duties early in 1957. The time given to us by our sessional dental officers still amounts to the equivalent of 61 whole-time officers. We were able to maintain our weekly clinic at the School for the Blind at Bridgend until the end of September, when the lady dental officer who conducted this clinic resigned. With our straitened staff condition we were obliged to allow this clinic to lapse pending fresh arrangements. At the end of the year we were able to make arrangements for its reopening early in 1957. I am happy to report this, for the adequate dental treatment of these unfortunates is difficult to arrange away from their establishment. The satisfactory arrangements we made in the previous year for the dental treatment of pupils of our Residential School at Hendre, Monmouthshire, continued in the year 1956. Again I wish to express our thanks to Monmouthshire County Council for their kind co-operation. The foregoing paragraphs will give some indication of the difficulties which confronted us in planning a service for a school population of 129,384 jnipils but, with all our difficulties, we were able to maintain more or less regular services at thirty-six centres which, with the four centres of the Rhondda Excepted area, give a total of forty centres for the whole County.