[Report 1955] / Medical Officer of Health, Worksop Borough.

  • Worksop (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1955
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Credit: [Report 1955] / Medical Officer of Health, Worksop Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Provision of Maternity Beds.. Arrangements for admission to hospital are now made by the Nottinghamshire County Council and maternity oases are admitted to hospitals within the area of the Sheffield Regional Hospital Board* Mat emit? Out fits ■» These are provided free on rooonsnandation by the midwife, to all domioilieiry confinements * Workaop Cripples Guild* This important Guild continues its great work of the care and after-care of ©ripples in Worksop and neighbouring districts* The sessions are as under*- Orthopaedic Ciinia» Tuesday - ?.0 a«m* Thursday - 9*0 a*m» Saturday - a*m# The Orthopaedic Surgeon, Mr* McMullan, F*R.C*S*, visits the clinics at No, 18, Potter Street, Worksop, on the second Tuesday of each month at 9®° a*m* and the 4th Saturday la each month at 1*3° P*m* An Orthopaedio Sister attends on Tuesdays of each week, and there is a resident physiotherapist* Care of Illegitimate Children* Under a scheme adopted in 1944, the district has the service of a part-time Welfare Officer of the County Council Almoner Service, who co-operates with the Health Visitors and with the workers of the voluntary moral welfare organisations* Aabulanee Service* Ambulance services are provided by Nottinghamshire County Council and are controlled from Comity Council Headquarters in Nottingham* Worksop has been designated as a ^iain Station” with an attached “Sub-station• Vehicles comprise 4 ambulances and 2 sitter-cars* All the ambulances in the vicinity have now been provided with radio telephone* The advantages are obvious* Telephone No0 Sastgate, Worksop 2128« Laboratory Service* Certain bacteriological work in connection with suspected cases of Typhoid, Bysentry, Pood Poisoning, and the examination of ice-cream samples, is carried out at the Victoria Hospital, Worksop, and at the Public Health Laboratory, Sheffield* HOME NURSING* The District Nursing Association employing whole and part-time nurses will continue their Home Nursing Service on behalf of the Local Health Authority* The District Nurses for this area are *- Miss H* Boyle, 3°> Bracebridge* Tele* Workaop 2949* Mrs, Freeman, Darfoulds Tele* Worksop 2947*