[Report 1962] / Medical Officer of Health, Wolverhampton County Borough.

  • Wolverhampton (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1962
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Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Credit: [Report 1962] / Medical Officer of Health, Wolverhampton County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS Staff 4 Introduction . 5 Section I. Statistics and Social Conditions A. Summary of Statistics . 13 B. General Statistics . 16 C. Natural and Social Conditions . 20 Section II. Health Services of the Area A. Hospital, Specialist and Allied Services 1. Hospitals . . . . . . 24 2. Sanatoria . . . . . . 25 3. Chest Clinic . . . . . . 25 4. Venereal Disease Clinic . . . 25 5. Nursing Homes . 25 6. Bacteriology . . . . . 25 B. Local Executive Council Services 1. General Medical Service . . . . 26 2. Pharmaceutical Service . . . . 26 3. Dental Service . . . . . 26 4. Ophthalmic Service . 27 5. General . . . . . . 27 C. Local Authority Health Services 1. Care of Mothers and Children . . . 27 2. Midwifery . . . . . . 35 3. Health Visiting . . . . . 38 4. Home Nursing . . . . . 39 5. Vaccination and Immunisation . . . 41 6. Ambulance Service . . . . . 43 7. Prevention of Illness, Care and After-Care . 44 8. Domestic Help . . . . . 46 9. Health Education . . . . . 47 10. Mental Health . . . . . 47 11. Care of Aged and Infirm . . . . 53 12. Epileptics . . . . . . 53 13. Spastics . . . . . . 54 14. Blind Persons . . . . . 54 15. Medical Examinations . . . . 55 Section III. Infections and Other Diseases 1. Incidence . . . . . . 55 2. Scarlet Fever . . . . . 56 3. Whooping Cough . . . . . 56 4. Measles . . . . . . 56 5. Dysentery . . . . . . 56 6. Meningococcal Infection . . . . 56 7. Pneumonia . . . . . . 56 8. Puerperal Pyrexia . . . . . 56 9. Miscellaneous . . . . . . 56 10. Venereal Diseases . . . . . 57 11. Tuberculosis . . . . . . 57 12. Cancer. . . . . . . 59