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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
Kensington 1944
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]
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MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE SERVICES.
Health Visiting Staff.
The work performed by the health visiting staff during 1944 in regard to maternity and child welfare is summrised in the following table:-
| First visits to infants (0-1year) | 1,301 |
| Re-visits to infants (0-1 year) | 6,834 |
| Visits to children between 1 and 5 years | 9,579 |
| Stillbirth enquiries | 21 |
| Visits to ophthalmia neonatorum cases | 10 |
| Visits to measles cases | 176 |
| Visits to whooping-cough cases | 414 |
| Visits to puerperal fever cases | 13 |
| Visits to puerperal pyrexia cases | 24 |
| Visits to enteritis cases | 141 |
| Infantile death enquiries | 63 |
| Pre-natal visits | 2,944 |
| Half-days at welfare centres | 1,952 |
| Visits to foster mothers | 653 |
| Visits to registered daily guardians | 203 |
| Other visits | 4,361 |
Infant Welfare Centres and Ante-natal Clinics.
The work at these institutions during 1944 is shown in the following table:-
| Sessions at which doctor attended for pre-natal consultations | 458 |
| Individual mothers who attended pre-natal consultations | 1,709 |
| Attendances of pre-natal mothers | 7,551 |
| Sessions at which doctor attended for postnatal consultations | 12 |
| Individual mothers who attended post-natal consultations | 21 |
| Sessions at which doctor attended for infant consultations | 476 |
| Individual children who attended:- | |
| 0 – 1 Year | 1,808 |
| 1 – 5 Years | 819 |
| Attendances of children at doctors' consultations:- | |
| 0 – 1 Year | 4 ,249 |
| 1 – 5 Years | 2,513 |
| Attendances at centres of children for all purposes | |
| 0 – 1 Year | |
| 1 – 5 Years |