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I should like to pay tribute to the Health Visitors
who are carrying on prepared to tackle any problem,
visiting the homes in all weathers, either by cycling
or on foot. To the Clinic Nurses who attend the
routine clinics relieving the Health Visitors for more
important jobs. Also to the Tuberculosis Visitors
who by tact and persuasion bring the people to the
Chest Clinic.
What we achieve can never be evaluated in print,
our main aim being to assist everyone, where possible,
to attain complete mental and physical fitness.
Our Mothercraft and Relaxation Classes continue
to run successfully. The Mothers' Club at Manford
Way continues to be very popular, and added to this
is an additional one at Cecil Hall.
Many requests for the Health Visitors to talk
were received from Boy Scouts, St. John's Cadets,
Young Wives' and Mothers' Unions, and the talks
were on many varied subjects.
Sixty-seven homes were visited this year to enquire
how patients were after hospitalisation due to
home accidents. It is unfortunate that people should
be so badly incapacitated, needing hospital care,
very often as the result of some simple misfortune
or folly in the home. It is here too that we meet
many elderly folk needing considerable assistance.
Our work has increased amongst the physically
handicapped people, and aids, though sometimes
small, assist towards greater independence. The
link with Voluntary Agencies continues and much
helpful assistance on both sides comes from my being
invited to be a member of the Multiple Sclerosis
Society and the Physically Handicapped Committee
held locally.
Various students continue to visit us, usually to
broaden their knowledge of Public Health Services.
Two Student Health Visitors came for their practical
training in October 1959.
As new clinics are built it is hoped to extend our
teaching activities."