[Report 1936] / Medical Officer of Health, Cambridgeshire County Council.

  • Cambridgeshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1936
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Credit: [Report 1936] / Medical Officer of Health, Cambridgeshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AREA. Laboratory and Ambulance Facilities.—The arrange- ments under these heads were fully set out in the report for 1935 and there are no developments to record. Nursing in the Home.—It was pointed out last year that at the end of 1935 there were only four villages in the rural area of the County which had no District Nurse available, but that at the time of writing arrangements had been made to extend the services of existing District Nursing Associations to them. This has now been done and the whole County is therefore covered by a series of District Nursing Associations whose activities are co- ordinated by the County Nursing Association. One District Nursing Association remains unaffiliated to the County Association (Wilbraham) and the village of Kennett is nursed by the Moulton District Nursing Association which is affiiliated to the West Suffolk County Association. In general the services of the District Nurses are only available to subscribers, but non-subscribers may avail themselves of their help on payment of a prescribed fee per visit and the destitute poor are nursed free of charge, the service being covered by a grant which the County Nursing Association receives from the County Council through the Public Assistance Committee. Clinics, Treatment Centres and Hospitals.—There is nothing to add to the information given in the report for 1935 under these heads. Public Assistance.—There is nothing of note to record under this head. The new male block has still not been added at the County Infirmary, but at the time of writing building is in progress and its early completion is expected.