[Report 1917] / Medical Officer of Health, North Riding of Yorkshire County Council.

  • North Riding of Yorkshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1917
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Credit: [Report 1917] / Medical Officer of Health, North Riding of Yorkshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Training of Suitable Perrons for Maternity Nursing. The Council in 1898 formulated a scheme whereby suitable persons ordinarily resident within the administrative area were eligible for Nursing Scholarships. These Scholarships were tenable at any Hospital or Infirmary approved by the Committee, and were for a period of nineteen months training or twelve months at the option of the candidate. A nineteen months5 Scholarship, valued £50, embraced—(1) Three months trial; (2) Twelve months probation ; (8) Four months maternity lectures and instruction. A twelve months’ Scholar¬ ship, value £27 10s., covered the cost of twelve months general training. The number of Scholarships offered was four. Awards of a similar character have been made each year since the above-mentioned date. Within recent years the number of awards made averaged five, the conditions were slightly modified, and at the present time five Maternity Scholarships are offered to those who intend to nurse in the County for at least one year on the completion of their Maternity training. Preference is given to those candidates who propose to take a course of Maternity training as part of the full training of a nurse. Further provision for Maternity and General Nursing is provided by the North Riding Rural Nursing Association, who have a staff of fifty-four nurses, seventeen of whom hold the certificate of the Central Midwives Board. The following districts are affiliated with the Association : Northallerton, Osmotherley, Bedale, Appleton Wiske, Leeming. Guisborough (2), Boosbeck, Lingdale and Skelton, Middleton Tyas, Loftus and Skinningrove, Thornton-le-Dale. The Association have Local Committees at Aysgarth, Askrigg, Bainbridge, Brafferton and Helperbv, Leyburn and Wensley, Middleham, East Witton and Coverdale. Hawes, Hovingham, Malton, Sutton, Huby and Stillington, and Teeside. District Nurses not connected with the Association are employed at Ivirbymoorside, Malton, Richmond, Scarborough (3), Wykeham (for Ay ton, Hackness, Hutton Buscell and Seamer), Stokesley, Yarm and Eaglescliffe, Romald- kirk, Laithkirk, Thirsk, Whitby (2), Helmsley (2), Loftus and Skinningrove (2). Venereal Diseases Order. Agreements were made for the diagnosis and treatment of persons resident in the County with the Council of the City of Leeds, and the Council of the City of York, at the Leeds General Infirmary and the York County Hospital respectively. Similar agreements are being negotiated with the Darlington General Hospital, the Stockton and Thornaby Hospital, and the Scarborough Hospital. At the two former Hospitals persons are already being treated. Notices of the provisions of the Order were inserted in the papers circulating in the County, Medical Practitioners and Chemists were notified by circular giving instructions at which Hospitals persons can be treated. Medical Practitioners were further notified that— 1. Pathological Specimens were to be submitted to— Dr. M, J. Stewart, The General Infirmary, Leeds. 2. Necessary outfits for taking specimens will be supplied on application to— Dr. Cheetham, County Hall, Northallerton. 3. Salvarson substitutes will be supplied to Practitioners holding the necessary qualification on application to— Dr. Macdonald, The County Hospital, York. 4. A statement of the Hospitals at which treatment may be obtained, with the days and hours of the Clinics. The undermentioned leaflets were also supplied. 1. Application for pathological outfit. 2. Application for supply of approved substitutes for Salvarson. 3. Warning as to care after administration of Salvarson Substitute. 4. Particulars to be supplied with each specimen sent to the Pathologist. 5. Copies of instructions to patients suffering from Syphilis, Gonorrhea. 6. Copy of leaflet to the public. Midwives Act, 1902. During the year the names of seventy Midwives were placed on the roll against sixty- six in 1916, and sixty in 1915. Twelve were registered for the first time against nine in 1916. During 1917 the following ceased to practice in the County :— March 26tli—Mary Ann Roe (No. 30830). Brotton. May 12th—Elizabeth Sample (No. 2102), Redcar. „ 15th—Evelina E. Johnson (No. 41799), Grangetown. June 20th—Lucy Harker (No. 43757), Appleton Wiske. December 31st—Edith Kate King (No. 44782), Northallerton. Sarah Dugdale (No. 39624), Skelton. Bridget Kelly (No. 41826), Northallerton. Hilda Cook (No. 43766), Northallerton. Annie M. Cleator (No. 80954), Middleton Tyas. Elizabeth H. Smyth (No. 24226), Redcar, >)