[Report 1961] / Medical Officer of Health, County of the Soke of Peterborough.

  • Peterborough (England). County Council.
Date:
1961
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Credit: [Report 1961] / Medical Officer of Health, County of the Soke of Peterborough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Children aged i and under 2 years .... .... .... .... 1,910 Children aged 2 but under 5 years .... .... .... .... 2,498 Other Cases : total visits . .. 4,419 Total number of families or households visited by health visitors 9,454 Total visits paid to tuberculosis households . 818 (b) Clinics Total number of attendances made by health visitors at local authority clinic sessions during the year . 791 Total number of attendances made by whole-time tuberculosis visitors at chest clinic sessions. 177 In addition to the visits enumerated above, a total, of 14,01 visits were made when no one could be found at home, or a wrong address had been given, etc. Liaison arrangements between General Practitioners and Hospital with Local Health Service There are no arrangements in this area for health visitors to work in con¬ junction with a particular general medical practitioner or groups of practitioners There is, however, good co-operation between the general practitioners who, if they consider necessary refer any special cases to the doctors concerned. Arrangements are made for health visitors to follow up cases of persons discharged from hospitals when referred through the Hospital Almoner or the Sister of the Children’s Ward. All Health Visitors are supplied with telephones in their own homes, enabling them to be contacted individually by general practitioners even when off duty, or vice versa. HOME NURSING (Section 25) In the City of Peterborough home nursing is undertaken by the Florence Saunders Nursing Association on an agency basis. Six whole-time nurses are employed, three of whom have cars for which they receive the appropriate allowance. The rural areas of the County are covered by three full-time district nurses employed by the Local Health Authority. Each nurse in the rural area has a car. The nurses reside at Barnack, Castor, and Clinton.