[Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, Derbyshire County Council.

  • Derbyshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1958
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Credit: [Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, Derbyshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    desiring hospital or maternity home accommodation. Bed Bureaux have been set up at Chesterfield and Derby by the Sheffield Regional Hospital Board. Forms of application for admission are available at the Authority’s ante-natal clinics, and these are passed to the respective Bed Bureaux. Where admission to a hospital bed is recommended on medical grounds, this is sufficient to ensure invariably that a bed is made available, providing arrangements are not left until the last moment. In most cases, however, applications are based on social need, and such cases are referred to this authority for a report on the home circumstances. In the light of that report, which is made after a visit to the patient’s home by one of the Health Visitors, a recommendation is made as to the necessity for a Hospital or Maternity Home bed. In practice the scheme has worked smoothly and no changes are envisaged at the present time. The following is an analysis of cases visited by Health Visitors for a report on the the home circumstances :— DERBY BED BUREAU Suitable for home confinement .. .. .. .. .. 54 Hospital accommodation desirable but not essential .. .. 253 Home conditions unsuitable and hospital confinement necessary .. 628 Miscellaneous visits (i.e. cancellations, miscarriages, removals from district, etc.) .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 51 CHESTERFIELD BED BUREAU Suitable for home confinement .. .. .. .. .. 53 Hospital accommodation desirable but not essential .. .. 217 Home conditions unsuitable and hospital confinement necessary .. 711 Miscellaneous visits (i.e. cancellations, miscarriages, removals from district, etc.) .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 68 OTHER HOSPITALS OUTSIDE THE AREAS OF THE DERBY AND CHESTERFIELD BED BUREAUX Suitable for home confinement .. .. .. .. .. 1 Hospital accommodation desirable but not essential .. .. 82 Home conditions unsuitable and hospital confinement necessary .. 131 Miscellaneous visits (i.e. cancellations, miscarriages removals from district, etc.) .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 3 CHILD WELFARE CENTRES During 1958 three new Infant Welfare Centres were opened in the County, namely, at Mastin Moor, Mickley and Wingerworth, bringing the total to ninety-five. The number of sessions and attendances at the County Council Infant Welfare Centres during 1958 are set out below :— Half-day sessions .. .. .. .. 4,304 Number of new cases under one year of age 7,170 Number of children who attended during the year and who were born in :— 1958 1957 1956-53 .. 6,468 7,357 4,835