Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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TABLE H.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE WORK, 1927.
Nature of Work. | Centres. | Totals. | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. 1. | No. 2. | No. 3. | ||||||
Number of individual Mothers seen by Doctor:— Ante natal, New cases | 167 | 71 | 47 | 285 | ||||
,, Old cases | 353 | 168 | 75 | 596 | ||||
Post natal, New cases | 48 | 39 | 11 | 98 | ||||
,, Old cases | 51 | 34 | 25 | 110 | ||||
Total attendances of Mothers | 906 | 385 | 164 | 1,455 | ||||
Number of babies attending Centres for first time | 385 | 259 | 145 | 789 | ||||
Number of individual babies on Centre registers | 900 | 517 | 347 | 1,764 | ||||
Attendance of babies at medical consultations | 3,956 | 2,507 | 1,283 | 7,746 | ||||
Total attendances of babies at Centres | 6,297 | 4,106 | 2,486 | 12,889 | ||||
Referred to own private doctors | 39 | 47 | 8 | 94 | ||||
Referred to hospitals | 85 | 44 | 14 | 143 | ||||
Health talks given by nurses | 4 | 24 | 30 | 58 | ||||
First visits | Total visits | First visits | Total visits | First visits | Total visits | Total First visits | Grand Total visits | |
Visits paid by nurses : — To expectant mothers | 68 | 11l | 57 | 138 | 23 | 25 | 148 | 275 |
To infants under one year | 508 | 2,572 | 295 | 1,532 | 311 | 924 | 1,114 | 5,028 |
To children aged 1-5 years | 26 | 2,773 | 36 | 1,577 | 26 | 680 | 88 | 5,030 |
Total visits paid by nurses | 602 | 5,456 | 388 | 3,248 | 360 | 1,629 | 1,350 | 10,333 |
RECORD OF WORK OF MUNICIPAL MIDWIFE, 1927.
Confinements attended 122
Ante-natal Clinics attended 64
do. visits 284
Post-natal visits 1,609