[Report 1940] / Medical Officer of Health, Worksop Borough.

  • Worksop (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1940
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Credit: [Report 1940] / Medical Officer of Health, Worksop Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Our first Hsalth Visitor retired .frwn work in March 1939> owing to health reasons. The assistant Health Visitor v?as promoted, and with the help of a Trained Nurse (appointed in March,1939; , carried on the work until the end of the year. At the same time a lady clerk was engaged to assist in the clerical work, and sale of food at the Welfare rentre* The following return was made to the Ministry of Health in February, showing the. arrangements made for Maternity and Child Welfare, with particulars of the work done during the year 1940: Population .of the area served by the Council: 28,230 Births Notified: Live births, 4-74* Still births, 21« Total, 495* i By Midwives, 4&0<> By Doctors, 35*' Health Visiting: Number of Health Visitors, 20 Number of visits f:ald during the year: To expectant mothers: First visits, 19®° Total 368 To children under 1 year: ' $02 ” 3*184 To children 1~5 years: n 5*337 Ante .-natal Service: Number of clinics: 1 weekly Total number of women who attended the clinic in the year: 17b Percentage of total (live and still) births..... . Supply of Milk: Total quantity of milk supplied to expectant and nursing mothers and tc young children: January to July, 1940: Liquid milk, 703 gallons Dried Milk, 321 lbs. r Hospital Cases: Admitted for abnormal maternity or unsuitable home conditions: Total number, 23. Victoria Hospital, 16, County Hospital, 7- Hospital charges on account of these eases amounted to £235« 4. 3^- viz: Maintenance, £178. 3„ 3df Surgeons0 fees, £47« ?d' Anaesthetic fees, £9» 9s- Dental Treatment (Mot hers) Humber of applications for treatment and estimates for dentures completed: 17 For these cases the cost of treatment and dentures was: £131« 4. 6d. H'-m- helps provided during the year: 2 Maternity outfits: Supplied free, 7; Sold, 2. Maternity Mortality: Deaths from Sepsis, 1; other causes, 2*. Rate per 1,000 (live and still) births, 5*7 Child Life Prtyti-.ot.ion: Number of persons receiving children: 6 Number of children: 6 M'(Vlbor of child protection visitors: 1 Child Keifare Clinic: Dental Treatment: 24 children (under 5) received treatment at 5 sessions. Orthopciedie Treatment: 8 children were referred for treatment ; these mo.de 3^4 attendant ; . at the Orthopoedxc clinic-. 5 children were supplied with supports and special shoes, for which the Committee assumed financial responsibility ■=■ Total Cost; £7- 7s ° Tonsils and Adenoids: 5 children were treated at Victoria Hospital at a cost of £7.17s* 6d,. I'phthalraia: 14 cases were treated at the Clinic, and ^.11 these recovered without injury to the sighto Infantile Mortality: T^tal deaths 41. Rate per 1,000 live births, 82., Causes of death (children under 1 year) See table, page 5* The death rate among Infants In the year was high =- 82 as compared with an average of 51 in the previous five years = mainly due to the unusual number of deaths from Pneumonia and Bronchitis in the early months of the year.. 6