[Report 1917] / Medical Officer of Health, York City.

  • York (England). City Council.
Date:
1917
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    for very feeble young babies ; it also receives indoor maternity cases from very poor, or insanitary or otherwise unsatisfactory homes, or unmarried (hitherto respectable) mothers; and it provides for the training of midwives; OR TO THE COUNTY HOSPITAL for general or operative treat¬ ment; also cases of ophthalmia neonatorum, venereal disease, &c. Many hundreds of leaflets (about the care and feeding of young children, ante-natal care, food economy and preparation, summer diarrhoea, and about flies) have been distributed to parents and households. GRANTS MADE OR RECEIVED DURING 1917 (1) York Corporation (from Local Government Board, in respect of work of Health Visitors, &c.), £213 10s. 4d. (2) York Infants’ Welfare Association (from Board of Education, for its School for Mothers), £154 12s. lOd. (3) York Dispensary and Maternity Hospital (from York Corporation, approved by Local Government Board), £200. (4) York Corporation to the Infants' Welfare Association (in view of its medical supervision and advice given to expectant and nursing mothers and young children), £100. (50 per cent, of these Corpora¬ tion grants are recoverable from the Local Government Board.) (5\ The Infants’ Creche, Fishergate (from Board of Education), £54 17s. 8d. A very vital development, having special bearings upon future maternal and child welfare, was instituted during 1917, viz. : The Local Government Board’s scheme for the prevention and treatment of Venereal Diseases. This will lead to more scientific investigation and prevention of abortion, premature birth, and still-birth—so often due to these destructive diseases—than has been hitherto possible. Dr. Hutchinson, of the Local Government Board, visited the City in February and made full enquiries as to the Maternity and Child Welfare work being carried out in the City. A letter was subsequently received from the Board expressing appreciation of the work being done by the Council, and stating that the Board was pleased to note the satisfactory co-operation of the York Infants’ Welfare Association in the Council’s scheme, and they trusted that arrangements for re-visiting would be carefully supervised, to ensure that visits will be continued up to school age in all cases where necessary. In March, 1917, the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust issued two large and handsome volumes, constituting their Beport on the Physical Welfare of Mothers and Children, England and Wales. Volume I, compiled by Dr. E. W. Hope, Medical Officer of Health for Liverpool, and Professor of Public Health in the University of Liverpool, reviews the causes and incidence of infant mortality (with charts and diagrams) and the maternity and infant welfare work being carried out, with detailed returns as to each county and county borough.