[Report 1965] / Medical Officer of Health, Canterbury Borough / City & County.

  • Canterbury (England). City & County Council.
Date:
1965
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Credit: [Report 1965] / Medical Officer of Health, Canterbury Borough / City & County. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Classification 1963 1964 1965 Physically Handicapped Elderly 17 19 45 Otherwise 7 7 3 Elderly Persons 35 39 48 Expectant Mothers Nil Nil Nil Total 59 65 96 Sources of Referral Gen. Med. Practitioners 52 44 57 District Nurses 6 18 25 Health Visitors 1 3 14 Total 59 65 96 Cases under Treatment 31.12.65 215 Mental Health The Social and Mental Welfare Officer gives threequarters of his time to Health activity and one quarter to Welfare work. The demands of social work require that he should be able to concentrate the time required on case work according to the needs of the case and not on a rationed basis of work distribution. For this reason the Welfare side appointed a part-time home visitor for the elderly to meet the routine contacts, and the Health side plans relief in the Mental Welfare routine. Care and After-Care Liaison between St. Augustine’s Hospital and the Mental Welfare Officer continues satisfactorily and 892 visits were paid to 46 individual patients and their families. The Mental Welfare Officer also attended Psychiatric Out-Patient Clinics at Kent and Canterbury Hospital with patients as required. During the year the number of admissions to St. Augustine’s Hospital involving the Mental Welfare Officer was as follows:— Section 29 Section 25 Section 26 Informal Totals Male e A ~ 1 17 Female 4 10 3 3 20 New referrals for after-care totalled 10 and these were referred from various sources, including St. Augustine’s Hospital, Health Visitors, and relatives. Accommodation There is still great difficulty in obtaining suitable accommodation for patients discharged from hospital and it may well be necessary