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 I.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE WORK, 1933.
Nature of Work. | Centres. | Totals. | ||||||
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No. 1. | No. 2. | No, 3 and Sub-Centre. | ||||||
Number of sessions held | 197 | 122 | 93 | 415 | ||||
,, ante natal sessions held | 50 | 25 | 23 | 98 | ||||
Number of individual Mothers seen by Doctor:— | ||||||||
Ante natal, New cases | 195 | 76 | 73 | 344 | ||||
,, Old cases | 337 | 123 | 103 | 563 | ||||
Post-natal. New cases | 40 | 24 | 3 | 67 | ||||
,, Old cases | 9 | 14 | — | 23 | ||||
581 | 237 | 179 | 997 | |||||
Total attendances of Mothers | 659 | 292 | 253 | 1,204 | ||||
Number of babies attending Centres for first time : Under 1 year | 345 | 191 | 150 | 686 | ||||
1-5 years | 81 | 56 | 74 | 211 | ||||
Number of individual babies on Centre registers: Under 1 year | 301 | 253 | 128 | 682 | ||||
1—5 years | 663 | 206 | 341 | 1,210 | ||||
Babies seen by Doctor | 2,289 | 1,322 | 915 | 4,536 | ||||
Attendances of babies at medical consultations | 3,202 | 2,072 | 1,110 | 6,384 | ||||
Total attendances of babies at Centres : Under 1 year | 5,416 | 2,522 | 1,734 | 9,672 | ||||
1—5 years | 3,460 | 1,041 | 962 | 5,463 | ||||
Referred to own private doctors | 15 | 11 | 2 | 28 | ||||
Referred to hospitals | 148 | 42 | 2 | 192 | ||||
Health talks given by nurses | — | 31 | — | 31 | ||||
Grant Total's | ||||||||
Visits paid by nurses: — | First visits | Total visits | First visits | Total visits | First visits | Total visits | First visits | Total visits |
To expectant mothers | 92 | 184 | 91 | 151 | 48 | 76 | 231 | 411 |
To infants under one year | 487 | 2,364 | 313 | 1,351 | 278 | 1,075 | 1,078 | 4,790 |
To children aged 1—5 years | 112 | 3,465 | 73 | 1,667 | 60 | 1,534 | 245 | 6,666 |
Total visits paid by Nurses | 691 | 6,013 | 477 | 3,169 | 386 | 2,685 | 1,554 | 11,867 |
CHILDREN ACTS— Visits paid to Foster Children | 8 | 121 | 9 | 101 | 2 | 104 | 19 | 326 |
RECORD OF WORK OF MUNICIPAL MIDWIFE, 1933.
Confinements attended | 139 |
Ante-natal Clinics attended | 89 |
do. visits | 574 |
Post-natal visits | 1,885 |