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B.— GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES
IN THE BOROUGH.
1. Public Health Officers of the Authority
The names and qualifications of the Senior Public Health
officers employed by the Authority are given at the beginning of
the Report.
The following changes in the officers employed by the
Authority took place during the year:—
Appointments:
Mrs. D. Puleston, part-time Laundress—2.7.56.
Resignations :
Mr. G. Eve, Higher General Division Clerk—13.6.56.
2. Integration of Health Services.
The arrangements detailed in the Report for 1954 continued.
Circular letters were addressed to General Practitioners on ten
occasions and included seventeen items, of which the following is a
summary:—
1. Vaccination against Poliomyelitis. Notification of Tuberculosis.
2. Vaccination against Poliomyelitis. Supply of Tetanus Anti-toxin.
3. Poliomyelitis. Supply of Gamma Globulin. Collection of Laboratory
Specimens during holiday periods 1956.
4. Vaccination against Poliomyelitis.
5. Vaccination against Poliomyelitis.
6. Paratyphoid Fever.
7. Paratyphoid Fever. Poliomyelitis.
8. Poliomyelitis.
9. Medical Care of Children suffering from Epilepsy, Provision of
Convalescence: Respective responsibility of Regional Hospital
Boards and Local Health Authorities.
10. Collection of Laboratory Specimens during Christmas, 1956. Exclusion
from School on account of Infectious Illness.
Three members of the Borough Council served on the Group
Hospital Management Committee and in addition the Medical
Officer of Health served as a member of the Group Medical
Advisory Committee and as one of its representatives on the
Hospital Management Committee.
In May a meeting of Medical Practitioners working in the
area of the Forest (Group 11) Hospital Management Committee