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illness has proved most successful. She worked in close co-operation with
the hospitals, continuing in the patient's home the treatment already commenced.
For detailed figures see Appendix page 111.
Throughout the year all services have taken part in seminars and study
days as well as the statutory refresher courses. Further training as field
work instructors was taken by selected health visitors to enable them to
undertake the practical training of students in a more realistic manner. This
is very important if the standard of health visiting is to be maintained.
Each service awaits change. Will the domiciliary and hospital midwifery
services become one in the future as the recruitment of midwives becomes more
difficult?
The home nursing service moves closer to complete general practitioner
attachment whilst the health visitor finds the scope of her work increased
as more and more specialists move into the field to deal with the ills that
the stress and strain of modern life has brought about in family life.
IMMUNISATION
Efforts to raise the percentage of children immunised against poliomyelitis
were successful, and some 90% of those born in 1967 were given this
protection. The figure for diphtheria was 72% and an increase over the previous
year. These results were achieved using existing recording methods,
as computer programmes were delayed.
For tables see Appendix page 129.