[Report 1965] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottingham City.

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

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    39 Phenylketonuria. No case of this disease was detected among the 4,545 children tested. Co-operation with General Practitioners and with Hospitals. Although no formal arrangements for health visitors to work with general practitioners were instituted, further requests were received for their services, particularly in the care of the elderly living alone, difficult families and unmarried mothers. One health visitor continued to conduct mothercraft classes at the ante-natal clinic held in a group practice surgery. A senior health visitor attended the Children’s Hospital one afternoon each week to provide information about home conditions and to receive details from consultant paediatricians and other hospital staff of children requiring supervision after discharge from inpatient care. Health visitors continued to attend diabetic clinics at the General Hospital and the City Hospital, the post-natal clinic at the latter hospital and gave talks in health education at The Firs Maternity Hospital to expectant mothers at relaxation clinics. Requests for community health services for patients discharged from, hospital were made either to the Superintendent Nursing Officer or to the head of the appropriate department by hospital medical social workers. Visitors to the Department. The work of the health visitors in the welfare centres and on home visits was demonstrated to 287 visitors including students from the Nottingham and Nottingham¬ shire Joint Training Course for Health Visitors, home nurses studying for the examination for admission to the Queen’s Roll, student nurses from the General, City and Children’s Hospitals and pupil nurses from Highbury Hospital. Visits were also