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Hornsey 1925

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]

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TABLE I.

MATEBNITY AND CHILD W'ELFABE WOBIv, 1925.

Nature of Work.Centres.Totals.
No. 1.No. 2.No. 3.
Number of ordinary sessions held19496(3 months). 11301
Number of ante-natal sessions bald5322176
Number of individual Mothers seen by Doctor:—Ante-natal, New cases189462237
,, Old cases3411015447
Post-natal, New cases102312185
,, Old cases16S8717269
Total attendances of Mothers1,291321271,639
Number of babies attending Centres for first time51625447817
Number of individual babies on Centre registers1,1255011581,784
Attendance of babies at medical consultations5,8152,7232848,822
Total attendances of babies at Centres8,5123,74152212,775
Eeferred to own private doctors56423101
Referred to hospitals1557912246
Health talks given by nurses2523856
Examinations in Mothercraft22
Lectures to parents by M.O.H.22
Visits paid by nurses : —To expectant mothersFirst visits173Total visits368First visits 52Total visits 148First visits 3Total Visits 5First Visits 228TotalVisits521
To infants under one year7233,0033731,577582521,1544,832
To children aged 1-5 years642,285571,537121431333.965
Total visits paid by nurses5,6503,2624009,318

RECORD OF WORK OF MUNICIPAL MIDWIFE, 1925.

Confinements attended105
Confinements on books at end of year35
Ante-natal Clinics attended62
do. first visits118
do. other ,, „149
Post-natal visits1,414