[Report 1939] / Medical Officer of Health, Boston Borough and Port Health Authority.

  • Boston (England). Borough Council. nb2007025323.
Date:
1939
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Credit: [Report 1939] / Medical Officer of Health, Boston Borough and Port Health Authority. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INFANTILE MORTALITY Of the total number of deaths registered • in the Borough during 193#/? the following were in respect of children under one year of age :- Males: 6; Females: 5; Total: 11. The Infantile Mortality Rate per 1,000 registered live births was therefore 24.89. > ,It should be noted that the above figures also have not been adjusted with regard to inward and outward transfers. SECTION B. GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES FOR-THE AREA. 1. STAFF - The personnel of the Medical, Nursing, Sanitary and Clerical Staff of the Public Health Department remains as at the end of 1938, with the following alterations ■ Health Visitor/School Nurse.- Miss M.M. Bradley, S.C.M., Health Visitor R.S.I., (resigned 30/8/39). Miss I.P. Burt, S.R.N., S.R.F.N., S.C .M., Health Visitor - R.S.I. (appointed 4/10/39). Venereal Diseases. (Holland County Council).- J.H.F. Pankhurst, M.D., B.S., B.Hy., D.P.H. • , (resigned 25.3o40). 5“. Fielding, M.D., Ch.B., D,P,H., (appointed 26.3.40). Chief Clerk.~ ..r - A. Lawther (resigned May, 1939). G. Newham (appointed June, 1939). LABORATORY FACILITIES As a result of the outbreak of War, the laboratory arrangements described in my Annual Report for 1938 have been augmented by the Emergency Laboratory Service set up by the Ministry of Health. Under this Scheme the following Laboratories are available to carry out the examination of bacteriological and pathological specimens from the district if required (1) Public Health Laboratory, Technical College, Lincoln. (2) Public Health Laboratory, Isolation Hospital, Groby Road, Leicester.