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, 1930.
Nature of Work. | Centres. | Totals. | ||||||
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No. 1. | No. 3. | No. 3 and Sub-Centre. | ||||||
Number of sessions held | 217 | 115 | 75 | 407 | ||||
,, ante natal sessions held | 50 | 25 | 20 | 95 | ||||
Number of individual Mothers seen by Doctor:— Ante-natal, New cases | 177 | 95 | 54 | 326 | ||||
,, Old cases | 391 | 204 | 113 | 708 | ||||
Post-natal, New cases | 56 | 20 | 8 | 79 | ||||
,, Old cases | 9 | 8 | 5 | 22 | ||||
633 | 327 | 175 | 1,135 | |||||
Total attendances of Mothers | 1,108 | 425 | 185 | 1,718 | ||||
Number of babies attending Centres for first time | 395 | 243 | 194 | 832 | ||||
Number of individual babies on Centre registers | 855 | 485 | 479 | 1,819 | ||||
Attendance of babies at medical consultations | 3,775 | 2,238 | 1,363 | 7,376 | ||||
Babies seen by doctor | 2,664 | 1,623 | 1,021 | 5,308 | ||||
Total attendances of babies at Centres | 8,155 | 4,417 | 2,791 | 15,363 | ||||
Referred to own private doctors | 34 | 30 | 4 | 68 | ||||
Referred to hospitals | 102 | 52 | 33 | 187 | ||||
Health talks given by nurses | 7 | 32 | 32 | 71 | ||||
Total | Grand | |||||||
First | Total | First | Total | First | Total | First | Total | |
Visits paid by nurses:— | visits | visits | visits | visits | visits | visits | Visits | visits |
To expectant mothers | 87 | 136 | 65 | 114 | 58 | 82 | 210 | 332 |
To infants under one year | 541 | 2,710 | 312 | 1,448 | 314 | 1,208 | 1,167 | 5,366 |
To children aged 1-5 years | 60 | 3,221 | 39 | 1,725 | 68 | 1,508 | 167 | 6,454 |
Total visits paid by nurses | 688 | 6,067 | 416 | 3.287 | 440 | 2,798 | 1,544 | 12,152 |
CHILDREN ACT, 1908— Visits paid to Foster Children | 7 | 35 | 15 | 31 | 1 | 39 | 23 | 105 |
RECORD OF WORK OF MUNICIPAL MIDWIFE, 1930.
Confinements attended | 144 |
Ante-natal Clinics attended | 75 |
do. visits | 391 |
Post-natal visits | 2,039 |