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Hornsey 1930

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

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TABLE H.

MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE WORK, 1930.

Nature of Work.Centres.Totals.
No. 1.No. 3.No. 3 and Sub-Centre.
Number of sessions held21711575407
,, ante natal sessions held50252095
Number of individual Mothers seen by Doctor:— Ante-natal, New cases1779554326
,, Old cases391204113708
Post-natal, New cases5620879
,, Old cases98522
6333271751,135
Total attendances of Mothers1,1084251851,718
Number of babies attending Centres for first time395243194832
Number of individual babies on Centre registers8554854791,819
Attendance of babies at medical consultations3,7752,2381,3637,376
Babies seen by doctor2,6641,6231,0215,308
Total attendances of babies at Centres8,1554,4172,79115,363
Referred to own private doctors3430468
Referred to hospitals1025233187
Health talks given by nurses7323271
TotalGrand
FirstTotalFirstTotalFirstTotalFirstTotal
Visits paid by nurses:—visitsvisitsvisitsvisitsvisitsvisitsVisitsvisits
To expectant mothers87136651145882210332
To infants under one year5412,7103121,4483141,2081,1675,366
To children aged 1-5 years603,221391,725681,5081676,454
Total visits paid by nurses6886,0674163.2874402,7981,54412,152
CHILDREN ACT, 1908— Visits paid to Foster Children735153113923105

RECORD OF WORK OF MUNICIPAL MIDWIFE, 1930.

Confinements attended144
Ante-natal Clinics attended75
do. visits391
Post-natal visits2,039