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(b) Health Visiting and Home Nursing.
It is made the duty of the local health authority to provide
for a full health visitor service for all in their area who are
sick, or expectant mothers, or those with the care of young
children. This widens the present conception of health visiting
(as concerned with mothers and children) into a more general
service of advice to households where there is sickness or where
help of a preventive character may be needed.
It is also made the duty of the local health authority to
provide a home nursing service for those who—for good
reason— need nursing in their own homes.
In both of these activities the local authority can, if it
likes and if the Minister approves, make all or part of its
provision by arrangement with voluntary organisations to
act on its behalf
In July, the Council decided that accommodation be provided
at the proposed new main health centre for the administrative
offices of the Public Health Department, and also for the health
centre facility proposals contained in the National Health Service
Act; and in September the provision of six Subsidiary Health
Centres was incorporated in the Council's long-term plan—the
idea being that a Subsidiary Health Centre be incorporated in six
of the eight "Neighbourhood Units" proposed in connection with
the Council's town planning scheme. At the end of the year
negotiations were taking place with regard to the acquisition of
the sites.
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE
AREA.
SANITARY INSPECTIONS OF THE AREA.
Inspections.