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Ailments Treatment Scheme could be undertaken in the new Health Centre as
well as sunlight and massage treatment of children and the treatment of cases
other than maternity and child welfare patients for which the Council makes an
annual contribution to the British Red Cross Society.
In my previous report I referred to the desirability of providing office
accommodation in the Centre for the Municipal Health Visitors. l am of opinion
that this proposal should now be extended to include office accommodation for
the Council's Food and Drugs Inspector and the Food Inspector. This arrangement
would give to the Public Health Department in the Town Hall much needed
additional accommodation for the staff, and improved facilities for records.
In presenting this report for your consideration I have only dealt with those
matters which fall within my province as Medical Officer of Health, i.e., to enumerate
the services appropriate for a Centre of this character. The following summary
will enable the Council to appreciate at a glance the approximate cost of these
proposals.
Tuberculosis. —Artificial Pneumothorax.
X-ray Department.
Infant Welfare Centre
Special Clinic for Women
(Gynaecological).
Electro-Medical Department
Rheumatism Clinic
Dental Clinic
Foot Clinic
X-Ray Department
Child Guidance Clinic
Minor Ailments Treatment...
Health Propaganda
All services of the Centre ...
Estimated Cost
of Equipment.
Staff Requirements.
£1,350 One Class I female clerk.
£200 One additional Health Visitor for
general sessional duty at Infant
Welfare Centre. Rheumatism,
Gynaecological Breast Feeding
and Child Guidance Clinics
and Minor Ailments treatment.
— One part-time obstetric surgeon
and gynaecologist, and one
health visitor (see Infant Welfare
Centre).
£1,500 One Clinic Medical Officer. Three
or four trained nurses (fulltime).
£1,500 One Clinic Medical Officer (parttime)
and one Health Visitor
(see Infant Welfare Centre).
£275 One dental surgeon (part-time) ;
one trained nurse (part-time) ;
one dental mechanic (full-time).
£150 Two chiropodists (part-time).
£150 Two chiropodists (part-time).
See Tuberculosis. One Radiographer (full-time).
One Health Visitor (part-time)—
(see Infant Welfare Centre).
— One Clinic Medical Officer (parttime)
and one Health Visitor
(see Infant Welfare Centre).
— One Clinic Medical Officer (parttime)
and one Health Visitor
(see Infant Welfare Centre).
£225 —
Two clerks and a hall porter
(? resident Caretaker).
£1,000 —
£4,700
Furniture for all Departments
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