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, 1934.
Nature of Work. | Centres. | Totals. | ||||||
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Mo. 1. | No. a. | No. 3 and Sub-Centre. | ||||||
Number of sessions held | 187 | 115 | 71 | 373 | ||||
„ ante-natal sessions held | 47 | 23 | 22 | 92 | ||||
Number of individual Mothers seen by Doctor:— | ||||||||
Ante-natal, New cases | 168 | 45 | 58 | 271 | ||||
„ Old cases | 319 | 117 | 117 | 553 | ||||
Post-natal, New cases | 33 | 13 | 3 | |||||
„ Old cases | 12 | 3 | - | 15 | ||||
532 | 178 | 178 | 888 | |||||
Total attendances of Mothers | 745 | 212 | 177 | 1,134 | ||||
Number of babies attending Centres for first time: Under 1 year | 314 | 181 | 128 | 623 | ||||
1-5 years | 83 | 54 | 49 | 186 | ||||
Number of individual babies on Centre registers: Under 1 year | 279 | 238 | 100 | 617 | ||||
1—5 years | 680 | 191 | 344 | 1,215 | ||||
Babies seen by Doctor | 2,308 | 1,312 | 962 | 4,582 | ||||
Attendances of babies at medical consultations | 3,064 | 1,761 | 1,204 | 6,029 | ||||
Total attendances of babies at Centres: Under 1 year | 4,812 | 2,440 | 1,413 | 8,665 | ||||
1 5 years | 3,357 | 1,037 | 818 | 5,212 | ||||
Referred to own private doctors | 16 | 24 | 2 | 42 | ||||
Referred to hospitals | 154 | 36 | 4 | 194 | ||||
Visits paid by nurses:— | First visits | Total visits | First visits | Total visits | First visits | Total visits | Grand First visits | Totals Total visits |
To expectant mothers | 109 | 190 | 87 | 156 | 62 | 105 | 258 | 451 |
To infants under one year | 522 | 1,308 | 236 | 1,354 | 258 | 1,148 | 1,016 | 3,810 |
To children aged 1-5 years | 123 | 3,232 | 65 | 1,653 | 88 | 2,077 | 276 | 6,962 |
Total visits paid by Nurses | 754 | 4,730 | 388 | 3,163 | 408 | 3,330 | 1,560 | 11,223 |
CHILDREN ACTS— Visits paid to Foster Children | 9 | 150 | 12 | 117 | 11 | 186 | 32 | 443 |
RECORD OF WORK OF MUNICIPAL MIDWIFE, 1934.
Confinements attended | 147 |
Ante-natal Clinics attended | 79 |
do. visits | 546 |
Post-natal visits | 1,955 |