[Report 1922] / Medical Officer of Health, Chesterfield Borough.

  • Chesterfield (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1922
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Credit: [Report 1922] / Medical Officer of Health, Chesterfield Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ante-Natal Clinic. First attendances ... ... 36 Re-attendances ... ... 114 The Ante-Natal Clinic is conducted weekly on Thursday afternoon by Dr. Helen Hodge at the Centre in the Maternity Home. BABY WEEK. The annual Baby Week was held in the third week of July and synchronised with the opening of the Maternity Home and Infants’ Hospital. The County Exhibition, conducted by Miss Hughes, one of the County Health Visitors, was open daily at the Infant Welfare Centre at the Maternity Home, and lectures, demonstrations, etc., were held in a marquee pitched on the grounds of the Royal Hospital in front of the Maternity Home. Our best thanks are due to the Royal Hospital for permission to use their ground. Over eight hundred mothers and young children were enter- tained to tea in the marquee on the occasion of the dis- tribution of prizes by the Chairman, Aid. W. Hawksley Edmunds, for the competitions held during Baby Week. HOSPITALS PROVIDED OR SUBSIDISED BY THE LOCAL AUTHORITY OR BY THE COUNTY COUNCIL. (1) Tuberculosis. Derbyshire County Sanatorium, Walton, 124 beds for early cases. Tuberculosis Pavilion, Penmore Hospital, 18 beds for advanced cases. (2) & (3) Maternity Home & Children’s Hospital. A description of this new institution has already been given, together with the work done from the opening on July 19th, 1922, till December 31st, 1922. (4) Fever. Penmore Isolation Hospital, 58 beds for Scarlet ' Fever, Diphtheria, Enteric Fever and other in- fectious diseases.