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Hornsey 1929

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

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Table: TABLE H.MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE WORK, 1929.

TABLE H.

MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE WORK, 1929.

Nature of Work.Centres.Totals.
No. 1.No. 2.No. 3. & Sub-Centre
Number of individual Mothers seen by Doctor:—Ante-natal, New cases1667880324
,, Old cases405192110707
Post-natal, New cases473128106
,, Old cases14232663
Total attendances of Mothers1,1243852741,783
Number of babies attending Centres for first time405223210838
Number of individual babies on Centre registers8124505111,773
Attendance of babies at medical consultations3,5142,1801,3327,026
Total attendances of babies at Centres7,7034,5573,02215,282
Referred to own private doctors68415114
Referred to hospitals1164769232
Health talks given by nurses6263264
Visits paid by nurses:—To expectant mothersFirst visits85Total visits146First visits 69Total visits162First visits75Total visits141Total First visits229GrandTotalvisits449
To infants under one year5532,7193361,4582991,2311,1885,408
To children aged 1-5 years763,019291,811581 7561636,586
Total visits paid by nurses7145,8844343,4314323,1281,58012,443

Table: RECORD OF WORK OF MUNICIPAL MIDWIFE, 1929.

RECORD OF WORK OF MUNICIPAL MIDWIFE, 1929.

Confinements attended136
Ante-natal Clinics attended69
do. visits334
Post-natal visits1,915