[Report 1951] / Medical Officer of Health, Chesterfield R.D.C.

  • Chesterfield (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1951
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Credit: [Report 1951] / Medical Officer of Health, Chesterfield R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    at the larger pits. The majority of these establishments are in the charge of a trained State Registered Male or Female Nurse. Minor injuries are treated and dressings done which would otherwise require time off to attend the out-patients department in hospital or their own doctor ; thus time is saved and absence from work avoided to the benefit of both patients and the N.C.B. Some of the larger of such establishments give one an idea of the lines on which Health Centres might be run under the National Assistance Act. lake the development in its infancy at Wingerworth, there is another just commenced this year which will have a great effect on the Rural District, that is the City of Sheffield’s new housing estate situated between Gleadless and Frecheville. In the course of the next three—four years about 4,000 new houses will be erected, a complete township in fact. It will be interesting to note whether this will remain, so to speak, part of Sheffield situated in Derbyshire or whether the inhabitants will follow the Frecheville estate people and become an active and potent force in the communal life of the Chesterfield Rural District and North East Derbyshire.