[Report 1960] / Medical Officer of Health, Chorley Borough.

  • Chorley (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1960
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Credit: [Report 1960] / Medical Officer of Health, Chorley Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Midwifery Service There is one domiciliary Midwife in Chorley who attends expectant mothers who are confined at home. Home Nursing Service There are established in various parts of Chorley 4 female District Nurses, 2 State Enrolled Assistant Nurses and 2 male District Nurses. The duties of these nurses include nursing care of patients in their own homes and they arrange for the loan of nursing equipment in suitable cases. Home Help Service Home Helps are employed in Chorley and help a variety of cases includ- ing confinements, sickness, old age and infirmity, and Tuberculosis cases. Night Helps are also employed where needed. Ante-Natal Clinic There is a weekly session held at 2 and 4, St. Thomas’s Square, Chorley, when a specialist, employed by the Preston and Chorley Management Committee, attends. Child Welfare Centres Three Child Welfare Centres are open each week in the district, one at Eaves Lane, each Wednesday afternoon, one at Cunliffe Street open on Tuesdays and Fridays, and All Saints, Moor Road, being open Thursday afternoons. A Doctor and Health Visitor attend each clinic and advice is readily given in infant care and management and baby foods sold. « Poliomyelitis Vaccination Vaccination against poliomyelitis was available through doctors surgeries and the two school clinics in the Borough. Open sessions were held weekly in the clinics throughout the year. School Medical Service Medical and hygiene inspections are carried out at the schools and clinic sessions are held at 2 and 4, St. Thomas’s Square and 20, St. Thomas’s Road, Chorley, for a variety of treatments including minor ailments, dental care, ortho- paedic and opthalmic conditions. The County Council make special provision for residential schooling for various categories of handicapped children such as the blind, partially sighted, deaf and dumb, epileptics, delicate and backward. At the end of the year approval was given for the commencement of building operations for a new school clinic and child welfare centre m Chorley.