[Report 1919] / Medical Officer of Health, Staffordshire County Council.

  • Staffordshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1919
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Credit: [Report 1919] / Medical Officer of Health, Staffordshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Summary of the Year’s Work. Summary of Year’s Work of the Public Health Com¬ mittee of the County Council and the Central Authority for Health Visiting. The County health visiting scheme, embracing a joint area in which the local authorities had not previously estab¬ lished schemes, has been carried on most successfully as will be seen from the table of work done which is introduced as an appendix to this report. In my last annual summary I referred to the joint scheme which had been approved by the County Council and the County Education Committee for greatly extending the work and for establishing Infant Welfare Centres and School Clinics. Very satisfactory progress' has been made in this direction, and, up to the period covered by this report, we had established two school clinic? and welfare centres, namely, at Willenhall and Sedgley. Since that date, however, ten other Centres have been established, each in charge of an assistant school medical inspector, the staff of such inspectors having been increased to thirteen. Through the co-operation of the Education Committee, a whole-time medical officer of health has been appointed for the Cheadle Rural District to act as assistant school medical inspector. This appointment was made possible by a contribution of £180 towards the salary of the officer from the Education Committee, and £75 from the Count}7 Council in return for the work he does under the Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme. During the year, under the Milk (Mothers and Children) Order, a scheme for supplying expectant and nursing mothers and infants with milk in necessitous cases was started, and it has been extensively taken advantage of. The question of determining whether the case is a necessitous one or not, is, by order of the Council, referred to the medical officer of the district or the medical officer of the welfare centre.