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Health Visiting
During 1960, a total of almost 30,000 domiciliary visits was
made by our Health Visiting staff. The visits were made to the
following categories of patients:—
Expectant Mothers 345
Children under one year of age 7,138
Children aged one and under two years 4,224
Children aged two and under five years 5,600
Tuberculous households 3,780
The aged 229
Other cases 1,231
In addition to this work Health Visitors attended 954 clinic
sessions.
At the end of the year there were 19 Health Visitors employed
in this Health Area compared with 16 in the previous year. The
majority of Health Visitors carry out in addition the duties of
School Nurse.
The trend of increasing care being required for the elderly
and infirm residing in their own homes continues, and Health
Visitors' “social diagnosis” and reports on home conditions are
being increasingly sought by doctors in hospital and general
practice. There is, nevertheless, much scope for collaboration
between hospitals and local authorities over the discharge of
patients from hospital.
Home Nursing
The ten full-time Home Nurses employed in the Area paid
24,832 visits to 874 cases during 1961.
Vaccination and Immunisation
Smallpox Vaccination. The total number of primary vaccinations
carried out in 1961 for persons of all ages was 1,358 of whom
645 were infants under one year of age. This means that approximately
32.8% of infants are being vaccinated during the first year
of life.
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