[Report 1952] / Medical Officer of Health, Canterbury Borough / City & County.

  • Canterbury (England). City & County Council.
Date:
1952
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Credit: [Report 1952] / Medical Officer of Health, Canterbury Borough / City & County. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    All the domiciliary midwives have been sent on refresher courses since 1948 and will be sent in turn so that each one attends a refresher course if possible every four years. A district is provided for one pupil from the Part II Midwifery Training School at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital and one Domiciliary Midwife is an approved district teacher. Confinements taking place within Canterbury during 1952 were: Confined at Home—Private ... ... ... ... I L.H.A. Midwife 144 L.H.A. Midwife with Doctor ... 87 Total 232 Confinements elsewhere—Nursing Homes ... ... 33 Kent & Canterbury Hospital... 521 Total 554 Total Births in Canterbury ... 786 Canterbury Births to Canterbury Mothers ... ... 401 L.H.A. Midwives Cases 231 Medical Aid Sought 30 Gas and Air Administered 20^ Cases of Puerperal Pyrexia 6 Cases of Ophthalmia Neonatorum ... ... 1 Private Cases 1 One case of puerperal pyrexia occurred in domiciliary practice. Health Visiting. During 1952 the health visitor and school nursing staff was combined and of the five nurses in full-time city work four are working as Health Visitor/School Nurse and one as School Nurse and special Clinics Nurse. The full-time Tuberculosis Health Visitor attached to the Chest Clinic is a Kent County Officer but by arrangement gives one third of her time to City Work on Tuberculosis health visiting in and out of the clinic. As the general practitioners intermingle in the area served, it is not considered practical as yet to associate health visitors with practices. The use of health visitors by family doctors is slowly developing. The Council has a sponsoring scheme for health visitor trainees and at the end of the year was seeking a trainee. Facilities are offered for pupil health visitors from the Royal College of Nursing to visit and work in the area.