[Report 1957] / Medical Officer of Health, County of the Soke of Peterborough.

  • Peterborough (England). County Council.
Date:
1957
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Credit: [Report 1957] / Medical Officer of Health, County of the Soke of Peterborough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SECTION II GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES IN THE AREA Administration 1 he County Council, as a Local Health Authority, established a County Health Committee in accordance with the requirements of the National Health Service Act, 1946. The County Health Committee has, in turn, established the following Sub-Committees, which meet once monthly : — (a) Ambulance Sub-Committee; I (b) Mental Health Sub-Committee; (c) Maternity and Domiciliary Services Sub-Committee; (d) Prevention of Illness and After-Care Sub-Committee. The County Council has not established a separate department for its functions as a Local Welfare Authority under the requirements of the National; Assistance Act of 1948. A Sub-Committee (the Welfare Sub-Committee of the County Health Committee) meets monthly and the work is carried out i within the duties of the Public Health Department. The majority of the members of each of the Sub-Committees are members of the Local Health Authority, but each Sub-Committee co-opts any local persons who have a special interest in the subjects dealt with by each individual Committee. SECTION 22 — Care of Mothers and Young Children Ante-natal Clinics are held at “ The Gables ” Maternity Hospital, • Peterborough, for patients who have booked for admission to Maternity Units of the Regional Hospital Board. Blood testing for Wassermann, Kahn, and rhesus factor is carried out as a matter of routine. No doctors’ ante-natal clinics are held under the auspices of the Local Health Authority, but a considerable number of women are attended ante- natally by their own doctor. A Midwives’ Ante-Natal Clinic is held at the Child Welfare Centre at the Town Hall on four afternoons a week for patients who have booked a domiciliary midwife for their confinement. Blood testing is not carried out at these clinics, but the majority of general practitioners now make these tests, and arrangements have been made for me to receive the results of all blood tests, except those carried out by practitioners in Stamford. All midwives’ cases have a general examination by their own doctors for fitness to receive gas and air analgesia. During the year, 566 women attended these clinics (474 being new cases) and the total attendances were 1,722 compared with 1,549 made by 544 women in 1956.