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Medical Examiner to consult, with the prior consent of the patient, the general
practitioner or, where the member of the staffis in the care of a hospital as an in.patient
or an out.patient, the hospital doctor.
Medical reports from the hospital or chest physician concerned must be obtained in
respect of teachers suffering from tuberculosis to enable the statutory medical reports
required by the Ministry of Education to be completed and reports giving confidential
diagnoses are particularly helpful in cases of staff suffering from this and certain other
diseases to enable recommendation for additional sick pay to be made by the Medical
Officer.
CARE OF MOTHERS AND YOUNG CHILDREN
Administration
day to day administration of the services was continued by the nine divisional health
committees. In each division, the Divisional Medical Officer is responsible, through his
administrative staff, for the co.ordination of the personal health services in his area.
During the year, members of the committees regularly visited health establishments
in their divisions.
Maternity and Child Welfare Centres
Details of changes in centres during the year will be found in the section on Health
Service Premises, page 51.
Expectant and nursing mothers
First attendances at ante.natal clinics represented 45 per cent, of all women needing
ante.natal care compared with 44 per cent, in 1953 and attendances at post.natal clinics
increased. Educational activities at welfare centres (see page 85) continued to expand
and there was a substantial increase in attendances.