[Report 1945] / Medical Officer of Health, Brackley R.D.C.

  • Brackley (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1945
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Credit: [Report 1945] / Medical Officer of Health, Brackley R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    General Provision of Health Services. (a) LABORATORY FACILITIES. The Public Health Laboratory Service, Oxford, examine all swabs submitted by General Practitioners in the area and have also undertaken the bacteriological analysis of water samples and other specimens submitted from this district. Samples of milk are taken by the Sanitary Inspector and these are examined in the laboratory section of the County Health De- partment. (b) DIPHTHERIA ANTITOXIN. A supply of antitoxin is maintained at the Council Offices in accordance with the provisions of the Diphtheria Antitoxin (Out- side London) Order, 1910, and is available free of charge to all Medical Practitioners for use in cases of emergency in the rural district. (c) AMBULANCE FACILITIES. The Council have an agreement with the Joint Hospital Board for their ambulance, which is stationed at Staverton Isolation Hospital, to be sent to any part of the district in order to transport patients suffering from infectious disease to the Isolation Hospital. A Nurse accompanies the ambulance. (d) NURSING IN THE HOME. Under an agreement^ between the County Council and the County Nursing Association, the services of a nurse may be ob- tained for the treatment of patients suffering from puerperal fever, puerperal p3Texia, opthalmia neonatorum, whooping cough, diarrhoea in young children, poliomyelitis, measles, and cerebro spinal fever, but owing to the acute shortage of nursing staff, it would almost be impossible to fulfil this agreement. (e) CLINIC AND TREATMENT CENTRES. Infant Welfare—Brackley. \ Organised by Orthopaedic Clinic. [ County Council. Vision Clinic. ) Ante-Natal Clinic, Middleton Cheney.