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Hornsey 1926

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

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TABLE H.

MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE WORK, 1926.

Nature of Work.Centres.Totals.
No. 1.No.2No. 3.
Number of ordinary sessions held1979351341
Number of ante-natal sessions held50231285
Number of individual Mothers seen by Doctor:— Ante-natal, New eases1626736265
„ Old case*33815966562
Post-natal, New cases703611117
,, Old caBss834761191
Total attendances of Mothers9793901741,543
Number of babies attending Centres for first time468251185894
Number of individual babies on Centre registers9884883401,816
Attendance of babies at medical consultations5,0432,7461,3939,182
Total attendances of babies at Centres7,6964,1582,75714,611
Referred to own private doctors70617138
Referred to hospitals1005217169
Health talks given by nurses24282678
Examinations in Mothercraft213
Lectures to parents22
First visitsTotal visitsFirst visitsTotal visitsFirst visitsTota v isitFirst visitsTotal visits
Visits paid by nurses:— To expectant mothers11014247793762194283
To infants under one year6162,5913261,3422889531,2304,886
To children aged 1-5 years512,272181,695559571244 924
Total visits paid by nurses7775,0053913,1163801,9721,54810,093

RECORD OF WORK OF MUNICIPAL MIDWIFE, 1926.

Confinements attended153
Ante-natal Clinics attended74
do. visits321
Post-natal visits2,171