[Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Devizes R.D.C.

  • Devizes (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1947
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Credit: [Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Devizes R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IMMUNISATION AGAINST DIPHTHERIA-1947 Number of children who had completed a full course of Immun- isation at any time up to 31st December, 1946. Age at 3D 12 : 47 i.e. Born in Year. Under 1.1 2 3 4 1947. 1946. 1945. 1944. 1943. 5 to 9 10 to 14 1938-42. 1933-37. Total under 15. Number Immunised. — 45 99 130 119 678 789 1860 Estimated mid-year child population 1947. Children under five Children 6—14 2676 971. 1606. NOTIFICATION OF TUBERCULOSIS 1947 Pulmonary. Total. Non-Pulmonary. Total. M. F. M. F. Notifications 5 2 7 2 — 2 Deaths ... — 4 4 _ MATERNITY SERVICES 1947 Your District is fully served by Certified Midwives mainly em- ployed by Voluntary Nursing Associations with assistance of Grants from the Wilts County Council. Where such organisations are absent the Wilts County Council make direct provision. Close on half the Mothers domiciled in your District, 121 out of 261, were so provided for. Of the remainder, a considerable number were confined at Ivy House, Devizes. This Private Nursing Home is worked to capacity and over. It served 165 Births during the year and has frequently to turn away applicants for admission who thus have to seek accommodation further afield. I can only again emphasise my comments made in last year’s Annual Report (1946) as to the need for more Maternity beds in the Devizes Area. HOUSING 1947 Progress still very slow. Sites have been acquired at Rowde and two other smaller villages. Negotiations are proceeding over several others. Six new Council Houses have been commenced during the year : and sixteen by Private Enterprise. The thirty-eight Local Authority houses sanctioned to date have been completed, and thirteen others privately built; a total of fifty-one for the year. Delay is due in the main to the reluctance of owners to part with land. This sometimes results in tentative sites being scrapped and replaced by others; re-inspection following inspection ; quite apart from time taken up by owners in obtaining legal and other professional advice.