[Report 1936] / Medical Officer of Health, St Helens County Borough.

  • St. Helens (Merseyside, England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1936
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Credit: [Report 1936] / Medical Officer of Health, St Helens County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Table 32. Establishments in which persons were relieved. | Men Women Children j between 3 and 16 years of age Infants under 3 years of age I otal A). In Poor Law Establishments :— Whiston Infirmary : (a) Sick wards . 37 18 9 4 88 (b) Persons suffering from mental infirmity and certified under the Lunacy Acts or the Mental De¬ ficiency Acts . 41 53 94 (B). In Establishments not administered under the Poor Law Acts :— (a) Establishments for persons suffering from mental infirmity, excluding persons maintained under the Lunacy and Mental Treatment Acts, 1890 to 1930, in Mental Hospitals :— Royal Albert Institution . 1 1 (b) Other Establishments for the Sick— Maghull Home for Epileptics 2 5 7 St. John’s Institution for Deaf and Dumb, Boston Spa . _ 1 1 David Lewis Epileptic Colony, Manchester. 1 1 2 Chalfont Epileptic Colony, Bucks. — 1 — — 1 (C). In Mental Hospitals administered under the Lunacy and Mental Treatment Acts :— Rate-aided persons . 135 122 — — 257 Totals . 237 201 9 4 451 The arrangements commenced in 1935 for outdoor medical relief whereby the town is divided into five medical relief districts for each of which there is a part-time District Medical Officer, were continued during 1936. During the 12 months ending 31st March, 1937, 3,433 medical orders were issued and there was an average of 297 persons on the permanent medical relief list. During the same period 16,092 prescriptions were completed by the chemists in connection with the treatment of these cases. Dental cases are treated at the Council’s Dental Clinic, the work being carried out at a special evening session held weekly. 447 cases were treated during the year at that Clinic. To 55 of these dentures were also supplied, and in 10 cases dentures were repaired. Cases with eye diseases or defects are treated by the Ophthal¬ mic Surgeon at either the St. Helens Hospital or the Providence Hospital.