The People's Health
1932-07 1932 1930s 24 pages and drugs, and notification of disease, will be administered by this sub-committee, which will also undertake general health education by poster, sign, out-door cinema, &c. (B) Clinical. It will be the duty of this sub-committee to provide curative treatment for...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| Language: | English English |
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London : The Labour Party
July 1932
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| Summary: | 1932-07
1932
1930s
24 pages
and drugs, and notification of disease, will be administered by this sub-committee, which will also undertake general health education by poster, sign, out-door cinema, &c. (B) Clinical. It will be the duty of this sub-committee to provide curative treatment for all who need it. (a) In Urban areas the population will be divided into units of approximately 60,000 people and all the curative services (except hospital accommodation) for each unit will be organised from a Health Centre situated as far as can be conveniently arranged at about the obvious natural centre of each unit. In some cases the Health Centre will be attached to a general hospital. The general practitioner service for each unit of approximately 60,000 people will be provided by a staff of Home doctors, in the proportion of one to 2,000 people, and every person included in the unit will be able to select the doctor of his choice, provided this doctor's panel of 2,000 is incomplete. A very popular Home doctor will no doubt have a waiting list for his panel, but on the other hand there will be many people who will express no preference and be ready to accept any doctor allotted to them. The Home doctors will see their patients mainly by appointment in the Health Centre or sub-centres and will also visit in their homes those who need their help. It will be the duty of the Home doctors to do their utmost to maintain and improve the health of those committed to their charge. They will, therefore, encourage them to come for periodic examination even when well ; will instruct them in the laws of health and report any unhealthy conditions in connection with their patient's home or occupation to the Sanitary or Industrial Health Officials. At least one of the Home doctors in each unit should be a woman. In the Health Centres specialists of all kinds (including those for Tuberculosis and Venereal Disease) will see by appointment the patients referred to them by the Home doctors. These specialists will also visit patients in their homes when unfit to attend at the Health Centre. In the Health Centres the Medical Records will be kept and health education by lecture and demonstration will be carried out. There will also be departments for Child Welfare, Remedial Exercises, Light Treatment, and X-rays, as well as Clinics for the study and treatment of early disease. The ante-natal clinics staffed by specialists will also be situated in the Health Centres and the reports from these and all other 9
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