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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hackney 1966
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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Although close co-ordination and co-operation with the hospital and family doctor services is our constant aim it has not been possible this year to take any further practical steps to implement liaison schemes or attachment of staff to family doctors.
Details of some of the work done by the health visitors is set out below:-
| Cases visited by health visitors | No. visited:- | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| At request of G. P. or hospital | Others | Total | |
| Children born in 1966. | 5,953 | ||
| Children born in 1965. | 4, 862 | ||
| Children born 1961 - 64 | 9, 241 | ||
| Total No. of children born 1961 - 66 | 20,056 | ||
| Persons aged 65 or over | 87 | 242 | 329 |
| Mentally disordered persons | 6 | 82 | 88 |
| Persons, excluding maternity cases, discharged from hospital (other than mental Hospitals) | 12 | 57 | 69 |
| Tuberculous households | 12 | ||
| Households visited on account of other infectious diseases | 18 | ||
HOME NURSING
The statistical summary below indicates briefly the amount of work carried out during the year:-
| No. of cases being nursed at end of 1966 | 724 |
| Total No. of patients nursed during year | 2,670 |
| (Of these 107 were aged under 5 years and 1,501 were aged over 65 years at their first visit in 1966) | |
| Total No. of visits during 1966 | 104, 131 |
| No. of home nurses | 35 |
In recent years the number of cases requiring nursing during an acute illness
has diminished but the time required for nursing the aged is an ever
increasing problem and as will be seen from the figures quoted above more than
half of the cases treated are aged over 65 years.