[Report 1927] / School Medical Officer of Health, Lancashire County Council.

  • Lancashire (England). County Council.
Date:
1927
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Credit: [Report 1927] / School Medical Officer of Health, Lancashire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    autonomous for Maternity and Child Welfare work, have now joined the County Council’s scheme, and their Health Visitors, Miss F. M. Unsworth, Miss M. McDonald, and Mrs. L. Read have been absorbed into the County staff. The extension of the Committee’s Orthopaedic Scheme has necessitated the appointment of an additional Orthopaedic Nurse, Miss E. J. Hinkley, and of two additional part-time Junior Orthopaedic Surgeons, Mr. S. M. Milner and Mr. H. Poston. The Dental staff has been enlarged by the appointment of Mr. R. E. Hodgson, Mr. T. H. Wignall, and Mr. R. D. Manners. Several small outbreaks of smallpox again interrupted considerably the work of Medical Inspection. CO-ORDINATION OF THE WORK OF THE SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE WITH THAT OF OTHER HEALTH SERVICES. The arrangements for co-ordination have been fully described in previous Annual Reports. The Assistant School Medical Officers are Assistant Medical Officers of Health for the County, and are in touch with the Medical Officers of Health of the local Sanitary Authorities in their respective districts. The School Nurses are also Health Visitors. The following table shows the work done by the Nurses as Health Visitors during the year 1927 :— Home Visits— (Infants under one year)— No. of 1st Visits . No of Re-visits ('Children 1—5 years of age)— No. of Visits . Ante-Natal Work— {Expectant Mothers)— No. of 1st Visits . . No. of Re-visits Other Visits— Special Visits to Older Children, Medical Officers of Health, &c. 9,988 39,097 31,644 2,199 1,633 1,228 Visits to Cases of Ophthalmia Neonatorum and Other Matters. 287 During the year four new Child Welfare Centres were opened or taken over from Local Authorities which had joined the County Council’s Scheme for Maternity and Child Welfare, and the list of those which have now been established is as follows :— Abram Clifton Leyland (2) Rishton Adlington Coppull Little Lever Skelmersdale Aspull Crompton Littleborough Standish Audenshaw Dalton-in-Furness Longridge Thornton Barrowford Davyhulme Litherland Tottington Bamber Bridge Droylsden Milnrow Ulverston Billinge Feniscowles Morecambe Urmston Blackrod Fleetwood (2) Nor den Walkden Briercliffe Flixton Ormskirk Waterloo Bromley Cross Haydock Oswaldtwistle (2) Whitefield Burtonwood Irlam (2) Padiham Whitworth Church Kearsley Poulton-le-Fylde Clayton-le - Moors Kirkham Prescot Some of these Child Welfare Centres have been taken over from Local Sanitary Authorities which had previously established them, and in a few of these cases the visiting Medical Officer is the local Medical Officer of Health. In all cases, however, the Health Visitor and Superintendent Nurse of the Welfare Centre has become a School Nurse for her district in the County. Voluntary Helpers, as in the past, continue to do good work at these Centres. Instruction in Mothercraft is given to older girls from Elementary Schools in the districts of Leyland, Longridge, Urmston, and other districts, on a definite plan arranged between the Elementary Education Department and the Medical Depart¬ ment. The instruction is systematic and is a very valuable training for older girls in some of their future responsibilities.