[Report 1928] / School Medical Officer of Health, Lancashire County Council.

  • Lancashire (England). County Council.
Date:
1928
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Credit: [Report 1928] / School Medical Officer of Health, Lancashire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The services of Mr. H. B. Ivers (resigned) have been lost to the Committee’s Dental Scheme, and his place has been filled and the Dental staff further enlarged by the appointment of Dr. H. J. Appleyard, Mr. J. B. Davies, Mr. F. J. W. Dewhurst and Mr. A. W. Poole. Several small outbreaks of smallpox again interrupted considerably the work of Medical Inspection. CO-ORDINATION OF THE WORK OF THE SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE WITH THAT OF OTHER HEALTH SERVICES. The arrangements for co-ordination have been fully described in previous Annual Reports. The Assistant School Medical Officers are Assistant Medical Officers of Health for the County, and are in touch with the Medical Officers of Health of the local Sanitary Authorities in their respective districts. The School Nurses are also Health Visitors. The following table shows the work done by the Nurses as Health Visitors during the year 1928 :—• Home Visits— (Infants under one year)— No_ of 1st Visits No of Re-visits (Children 1—5 years of age)— No. of Visits . Ante-Natal Work— (Expectant Mothers)— No. of 1st Visits No. of Re-visits 10,208 42,651 34,312 2,068 2,097 Other Visits— Special Visits to Older Children, Medical Officers of Health, &c. 1,416 Visits to Cases of Ophthalmia Neonatorum and Other Matters. 516 During the year two new Child Welfare Centres were opened or taken over from Local Authorities which had joined the County Council’s Scheme for Maternity and Child Welfare, and the list of those which have now been established is as follows:— Abram Adlington Aspull Atherton Audenshaw Barrowford Bamber Bridge Billinge Blackrod Briercliffe Bromley Cross Burtonwood Church Clayton-le-Moors Clifton Coppull Crompton Dalton- in- Furness Davyhulme Droylsden Feniscowles Fleetwood (2) Flixton Haydock Irlam (2) Kearsley Kirkham Leyland (2) Little Lever Littleborough Longridge Litherland Milnrow Morecambe Norden Ormskirk Orrell Oswaldtwistle (2) Padiham Poulton-le-Fylde Prescot Rishton Skelmersdale Standish Thornton Tottington Ulverston Urmston Walkden Waterloo Whitefield Whitworth Some of these Child Welfare Centres have been taken over from Local Sanitary Authorities which had previously established them, and in a few of these cases the visiting Medical Officer is the local Medical Officer of Health. In all cases, however, the Health Visitor and Superintendent Nurse of the Welfare Centre has become a School Nurse for her district in the County. Voluntary Helpers, as in the past, continue to do good work at these Centres. Instruction in Mothercraft is given to older girls from Elementary Schools in the districts of Leyland, Longridge, Urmston, and other districts, on a definite plan arranged between the Elementary Education Department and the Medical Depart¬ ment. The instruction is systematic and is a very valuable training for older girls in some of their future responsibilities.