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i 24 Of the number employed in 1969, nine are employed in a generalized nursing service, 15 in home visiting only, 21 in schools, 3 in headstart and 7 as consultant-directors, exec- utive director and/or supervisor. Of the total of 55; 15 are prepared public health nurses. Eight were newly employed and needed orientation. Services provided had more emphasis on direct super- vision of nurses employed by towns and schools; all town nurses are now using one of the standard methods of keep- ing patient-care records, keeping a daily and monthly statis- tical record of kinds of cases and kind of care given, age distribution and type of payment made. Analysis and evalu- ation ,of data will be done. Some proposed plans for the coming year are: 1. Strengthening the maternal and child health serv- ices by in-service education programs and individ- ual direction. 2. Developing more meaningful service by the public health nurse as a part of the State Crippled Chil- dren's program. 3. Participating in the development of policies for school health programs through committee involve- ment. 4. Strengthening the role of the professional advisory committees: for example, policy and programs de- veloped for Home Health Agencies, Cape Cod Com- munity College Health Service and Headstart health services. 5. Study and evaluation of supervision provided to nurses; review of all nursing activities related to the purpose of improvement of nursing service in Barnstable County. Social Service The medical social worker has completed the first full year in this new position to the County. She serves as con- sultant to all members of the health department staff,Board of Health, community and school nurses, local physicians, hospital and nursing home professional personnel, and all public and private agencies. An important phase of the program has been to establish a workable referral program, providing proper use of re-