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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
Holborn 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough.
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Out-patient Midwifery Departments of General Hospitals and
Institutions:—
Externs and others 30
Midwives.—University College Hospital 6
Middlesex Hospital 1
Other Institutions 5
Training Institution for Midwives, Myddelton
Square 12
74
Three of these notifications related to stillbirths.
| The number of births transferred to the Borough from outlying institutions was | 179 |
| The number of births transferred from the Borough to other districts was | 9 |
| The net number of births belonging to the Borough was | 250 |
There are no maternity hospitals or lying in institutions in the Borough, but
maternity cases are admitted to a nursing home in the area.
| First Visits | Revisits. | Total. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Expectant Mothers | 161 | 205 | 366 |
| Post-natal Mothers | 16 | 3 | 19 |
| Children under 1 year of age | 265 | 745 | 1,010 |
| Children 1 to 2 years of age | 15 | 320 | 335 |
| Children over 2 years of age | 43 | 649 | 692 |
| Enquiries re stillbirths | 14 | ||
| „ re ophthalmia neonatorum | 9 | ||
| Other visits | 214 |
Three hundred and fourteen visits related to infants who came under further
observation in their own homes or at Infant Welfare Centres; of this number 216
were recorded as attending a Centre, i.e., 63 per cent.
Thus more than two-thirds of those visited attended an Infant Welfare Centre and
of these 81.5 per cent. attended at the Council's Centres.
Attendances at Infant Welfare Centres.
The Centres attended were the following:—
143 attended the Council's M. & C. W. Centre at 10, John Street.
33 „ „ „ Short's Gardens.
9 attended the Centre at Charing Cross Hospital.
3 „ „ Myddelton Square.
6 „ „ Middlesex Hospital.
7 „ ,, University College Hospital.
3 „ „ Royal Free Hospital.
12 „ „ other Centres.
216 attended an Infant Welfare Centre.