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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MATERNITY STATISTICS. Ante-Natal, Natal and Post-Natal.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE WORK. 1937
Nature of Work. | Centres. | Totals. | ||||||
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No. 1. | No. 2. | No. 3 and Sub-Centre. | ||||||
Number of sessions held | 179 | 102 | 78 | 359 | ||||
„ ante-natal sessions held | 50 | 24 | 22 | 96 | ||||
Number of individual Mothers seen by Doctor:— Aute-uatal, New oases | 218 | 91 | 64 | 373 | ||||
„ Old cases | 456 | 192 | 100 | 748 | ||||
Post-natal, New cases | 31 | 16 | 11 | 61 | ||||
„ Old cases | 5 | 9 | 0 | 14 | ||||
713 | 308 | 175 | 1,196 | |||||
Totilattendan.es of Mothers | 973 | 32 | 213 | 1,509 | ||||
Number of babies attending Centres for first time: Under 1 year | 435 | 230 | 141 | 806 | ||||
1-3 years | 89 | 58 | 50 | 197 | ||||
3—5 ,, | 52 | 21 | 23 | 96 | ||||
Number of individual babies on Centre registers: Under 1 year | 356 | 173 | 238 | 767 | ||||
1—5 years | 803 | 375 | 228 | 1,406 | ||||
Babies seen by Doctor | 2,899 | 1,595 | 798 | 5,292 | ||||
Attendances of babies at medica consultations | 3,637 | 1,911 | 1,010 | 6,558 | ||||
Total attendances of babies a Centrers Under 1 years | 5,936 | 2,913 | 1,513 | 10,362 | ||||
1—3 years | 2,729 | 930 | 647 | 4,306 | ||||
3-5 | 842 | 186 | 216 | 1,244 | ||||
Referred to own private doctors | 54 | 24 | 7 | 85 | ||||
deferred to hospitals | 231 | 61 | 13 | 305 | ||||
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 | 205 | 75 | 94 | 73 | 103 | 257 | 402 |
To infants under one year | 549 | 2,410 | 282 | 800 | 237 | 734 | 1,068 | 3,944 |
To children aged 1-5 years . | 133 | 3,051 | 87 | 806 | 54 | 1,170 | 274 | 5,627 |
Total visits paid by Nurses | 791 | 6,266 | 444 | 1,700 | 364 | 2,007 | 1,599 | 9,973 |
CHILD LIFE PROTECTION— Visits paid to Foster Children | 30 | 169 | 16 | 75 | 13 | 78 | 59 | 322 |
RECORD OF WORK OF MUNICIPAL MIDWIVES, 1937.
Miss Andrews | Mrs. Jameson | 'Miss Hughes | Total | |
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Confinements attended | 144 | 44 | 30 | 218 |
Ante-natal Clinics attended | 73 | 12 | 5 | 90 |
do. visits | 675 | 161 | 261 | 1,097 |
Pout-natal visits | 2,506 | 750 | 539 | 3,795 |
* Mrs. Jameson and Miss Hughes took up duty under the Midwives Act from 1st July. |