[Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, Pudsey Borough.

  • Pudsey (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1958
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Credit: [Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, Pudsey Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Artifical Sunlight Chapel St., Calverley Wednesday and Friday morning. Speech Therapy St. Lawrence House, Pudsey Tuesday all day, Wednesday afternoon & alternate Thursdays, all day. Child Guidance Somerset House, Manor Lane, Shipley. Wednesday. Laboratory Services Bacteriological examinations are provided through the Public Health Laboratory Service at Bradford and Wakefield. Chemical analysis of water, milk, foodstuffs etc. is carried out by Mr. Raymond Mallinder. Halifax, and Messrs. Richardson & Jaffe, Bradford Hospital Services General hospital services are available together with special services at Leeds General Infirmary. Geriatric cases are admitted to St. Luke s Hospital, Bradford, or St. James’s Hospital, Leeds, in the first instance. Maternity services are available at the general practitioner maternity unit at Four Gables, Clarence Road, Horsforth, and for special or complicated cases at the Leeds Maternity Hospital, or St. Luke’s Hospital, Bradford. Flying squad services are available from Leeds Maternity Hospital. Infectious diseases requiring hospital treatment are admitted mainly to Leeds Road Hospital, Bradford. A few cases are admitted to Seacroft Hospital, Leeds. National Assistance Act, 1948—Section 47 No action was necessary during the year under this section, which together with the National Assistance (Amendment) Act, 1957, provides for application to the courts for the removal of per¬ sons suffering from grave chronic illness, or being aged, infirm or physically handicapped and living in insanitary conditions, and w o are not able to devote to themselves, or receiving from other persons proper care and attention, to a hospital or other sui a e accommodation.