[Report 1956] / Medical Officer of Health, Canterbury Borough / City & County.

  • Canterbury (England). City & County Council.
Date:
1956
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Credit: [Report 1956] / Medical Officer of Health, Canterbury Borough / City & County. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cases of Puerperal Pyrexia— Kent and Canterbury Hos])ital... b Domiciliary Practice ... ... 1 Ca.ses of Ophthalmia Neonatorum ... ... ... 2 Births to Canterbury Mothers in Kent and Canterbury Hospital ... ... ... ... ... ... 174 Births to Canterbury Mothers occurring outside Canterbury ... ... ... ... ... ... o7 Births to Canterbury Mothers in Nursing Home ... — ,, ,, ,, ,, in Domiciliary Practice 224 M ,, ,, Privately 2 Total ... 467 The IS stillbirths occurred as follows : — In domiciliary practice ... ... ... ... 4 In Kent and Canterbury Hospital ... ... ... 8 In Nursing Home ... ... ... ... ... — Elsewhere outside the CitN’ ... ... ... ... 1 Of the 57 births occurring outside Canterbury 25 occurred at vSt. Helier’s IMaternity Home, Tankerton (Canterbury Group H.M.C.) and 25 occurred at the Military Families Ho.spital, Shorn cliffe. There are still no facilities for a family doctor to deliver a patient in a private or national health service maternity unit in Canterbury. Health Visiting. The .staff is unclianged, being 4 liealth \’isitor/school nurses, one school and clinic nurse and a shared tuberculosis healtli visitor equivalent to Vs full-time. Visits to Infants and Children— Under 1 year—P'irst Visits Other Visits 1-5 years —Total Visits Visits to Expectant Mothers— First Visits Other Visits Child Fife Protection Visits ... Visits to Old Persons ... (Visits to ca.ses of Infectious Di.sease are figures above). Tlie figures for the Tuberculosis Health follows : —i No. of Clinic Se.ssions No. of Refill Clinics No. of Mantoux Test Clinics ... No. of Home Visits Contacts Seen 1055 1056 421 458. 1,069 2,004 8,845 8,181 140 128 80 57 46 85 844 687 included in the Visiting are as 1055 1056 100 85 50 50 46 45 617 680 842 821