[Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Holland County Council (Lincolnshire).

  • Holland (England). County Council.
Date:
1947
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Credit: [Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Holland County Council (Lincolnshire). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (e) Provision on loan of open-air shelters, and assistance with beds and bedding to enable patients and contacts to sleep apart and so prevent the spread of infection. (f) Provision of training for employment. Close co-operation with the Ministry of Labour, employers, and trade organisations, in providing training for employment, finding new or suitable work, or suitable modifications in conditions of employment of ex-patients. (g) Generally to assist the tuberculous and their dependents to take full advantage of any benefit available—whether under social security legislation or through voluntary organisations—and to give every possible assistance to safeguard the patient against relapse and to preserve the health of the family. 6. The Local Health Authority will make an annual grant to the Care Committee and will provide adequate staff to enable that Commit- tee to carry out its functions. 7. No monetary grants will be made to patients or their dependents from the grant of the Local Health Authority, but the Care Com- mittee will be at liberty to do so from their own voluntary funds. 8. Officers of the Local Health Authority will work either as Almoners or in close contact with Almoners of hospitals or sanatoria in order that suitable after-care may be provided, and to advise the Officers of the Regional Hospital Board as to the home conditions of patients prior to their discharge from hospital or sanatorium. B. MENTAL ILLNESS OR DEFECTIVENESS. 1. The arrangements for the care of persons suffering from mental illness or defectiveness will be administered through the Mental Welfare Sub-Committee of the Local Health Authority. 2. Arrangements will be made with the appropriate Regional Hospital Board for one of its Medical Officers, with an approved qualification in psychological medicine, to undertake on a part-time basis the medical direction of the mental health social workers and also any specialist examinations required. 3. The Local Health Authority will appoint mental health workers who will act as “duly authorised officers” for the purpose of initial pro- ceedings under the Lunacy and Mental Treatment Acts, and also as “ascertainment officers” and “petitioning officers” under the Mental Deficiency Acts. 4. The Local Health Authority will utilise the services of psychiatric social workers either by their direct employment or through the National Association for Mental Welfare, or by arrangement with the Regional Hospital Board. 5. The Local Health Authority will undertake social work for patients in the early stage of mental illness or who are unwilling to seek medical assistance. Provision will also be made, in conjunction with the Regional Hospital Board, for the supervision and after- care of patients who leave or are discharged from a mental hos- pital or are attending a clinic. 6 As regards mental defectives, the Local Health Authority will un- dertake the following functions subject, where necessary, to ar- rangements with the Regional Hospital Board:— (a) community care work. (ib) voluntary supervision of persons not subject to be dealt with under the Mental Deficiency Acts, and of patients discharged from Orders under the Acts.