[Report 1940] / Medical Officer of Health, Staffordshire County Council.

  • Staffordshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1940
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Credit: [Report 1940] / Medical Officer of Health, Staffordshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    48 for the Education Committee, 10 for the Public Assistance Committee, 25 under the Health Visiting Scheme, 8 for outside Authorities, and 16 who were decanted in 1939 from the Hartshill Orthopaedic Hospital under the Emergency Hospital Scheme. CLINICS AND TREATMENT CENTRES. The number of Clinics and Treatment Centres was set out in detail in the 1930 Report, and the changes in each subsequent year have been stated in my Annual Report. The changes in Infant Welfare Centres which have taken place during 1940 are given in the section of the Report below, dealing with the Health Visiting Scheme. HEALTH VISITING SCHEME. As I have already mentioned, the County Health Visiting Area consists of 17 Urban and 10 Rural Districts, which have a total population of 454,650. This year there is nothing of an exceptional nature to report on the scheme generally, and the following are brief details of the various activities :— Infant Welfare Centres. At the close of the j^ear there were 35 Combined Centres (i.e., Minor Ailment Clinics and Welfare Centres) and 29 Welfare Centres, as compared with 36 and 31, respectively, at the end of 1939. In addition, there is one Voluntar}^ Welfare Centre. As stated last year, the Combined Centre at Ashley, which had been established temporarily to deal with evacuees, was closed early in 1940. The small Centres at Shenstone (Welfare only) and Longnor (Combined) had to be dispensed with in October and December, respectively, as the premises were requisitioned and no other accommodation was available. At Fazeley it was possible to return from temporary accommodation to the normal premises in March. The only extensions were at Kinver, where the Centre became combined in January, and at Wednesfield, where in September an additional half-day session was given each week. In total, 3,887 Welfare Centre sessions were held in 1940 against 3,621 in the previous year, 66,206 attendances being made by children under one year of age and 49,973 b}^ children between one and five years. The numbers of children in these groups who attended for the first time during the year were 4,856 and 1,996, respectively.