[Report 1955] / Medical Officer of Health, Aberdeen County Council.

  • Aberdeenshire (Scotland). Council.
Date:
1955
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Credit: [Report 1955] / Medical Officer of Health, Aberdeen County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    -6- Year of Birth Number of completed Immunisations Number of Maintenance Inoculations 1 943 13 293 1542 11 159 1941 1 79 1940 or 10 45 earlier Totals 2,848 5,458 7. Prevention of Illness, Care and After-Care (a) Tuberculosis As reported in previous years, the local authority has no scheme for providing B.C.G-. vaccination on a large scale, although arrangements have continued in conjunction with the Chest Physician for skin testing and for inoculation of contacts and other persons considered to be at special risk. The general scheme for the provision of extra nourishment still operates, as do the arrangements for the loan of special articles of nursing equipment. The County Council still possesses a small number of tuberculosis shelters which in the past were extensively used. The need for these, however, has diminished greatly as, owing to changed housing conditions, patients who are adequately housed do not require shelters and those who are inadequately housed ha.ve no space on which a shelter can be erected. Y/ith reference to housing, it is gratifying to record that all housing authorities within the county are sympathetic towards the re-housing of active cases of tuberculosis and allot considerable priority to such cases. Preliminary arrangements were made for a Mass Radiography campaign in the County of Aberdeen but owing to the unexpected withdrawal of the Mass Radiography Unit to an area where the incidence of tuberculosis was much greater than that of the County of Aberdeen, the arrangements were not finalised and the proposed campaign was postponed. (b) Epileptics and Spastics The situation remains substantially as reported last year and there is nothing of interest to add to what was said then, (c) Chiropody The Local Health Authority has made no direct provision for the establishment of a Chiropody Service, but the British Red Cross, Aberdeenshire Branch, has established clinics at Bucksburn, Culter, Peterhead and Fraserburgh. The Secretary of the Association has maintained constant liaison with the Local Health Authority and it is proposed gradually, and as rapidly as circurn- :stances permit, to extend the service to all areas of the county. The service is primarily for old people who are admitted to the clinics on the recommendation of the family doctor and who receive treatment free of charge, although voluntary contributions from the patients are 'welcomed. The Local Health Authority, under its existing powers, proposes to afford financial assistance year by year to the Red Cross Chiropody scheme. Similarly/