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, 1939.
Nature of Work. | Centres. | Totals. | ||||||
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No. 1. | No. 2. | No. 3 and Sub-Centre. | ||||||
Number of sessions held | 148 | 83 | 99 | 330 | ||||
,, ante-natal sessions held | 68 | 24 | 26 | 118 | ||||
Number of individual Mothers seen by Doctor:— Ante-natal, New cases | 253 | 106 | 81 | 440 | ||||
,, Old cases | 595 | 287 | 177 | 1,059 | ||||
Post-natal, New cases | 47 | 25 | 17 | 89 | ||||
,, Old cases | 7 | 3 | 5 | 15 | ||||
902 | 421 | 280 | 1,603 | |||||
Total attendances of Mothers | 1,336 | 421 | 280 | 2,037 | ||||
Number of babies attending Centres for first time : Under 1 year | 413 | 222 | 151 | 786 | ||||
1 3 years | 58 | 55 | 49 | 162 | ||||
3—5 ,, | 43 | 16 | 37 | 96 | ||||
Number of individual babies on Centre registers: Under 1 year | 326 | 189 | 119 | 634 | ||||
1—5 years | 809 | 352 | 292 | 1,453 | ||||
Babies seen by Doctor | 2,896 | 1524 | 1,010 | 5,430 | ||||
Attendances of babies at medical consultations | 3,586 | 2,032 | 1,546 | 7,164 | ||||
Total attendances of babies at Centres : Under 1 year | 5,169 | 2,571 | 1,788 | 9,528 | ||||
1—3 years | 2,714 | 982 | 694 | 4,390 | ||||
3—5 „ | 688 | 94 | 273 | 1,055 | ||||
Referred to own private doctors | 20 | 4 | 16 | 40 | ||||
Referred to hospitals | 9 | 9 | 24 | 42 | ||||
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 | 131 | 168 | 94 | 130 | 85 | 178 | 310 | 476 |
To infants under one year | 473 | 1,564 | 501 | 776 | 252 | 739 | 1,226 | 3,079 |
To children aged 1-5 years | 116 | 3,000 | 34 | 1,145 | 42 | 1,282 | 192 | 5,427 |
Total visits paid by Nurses | 720 | 4,732 | 629 | 2,051 | 379 | 2,199 | 1,728 | 8,982 |
CHILD LIFE PROTECTION— Visits paid to Foster Children | 13 | 113 | 17 | 137 | 9 | 54 | 39 | 304 |
RECORD OF WORK OF MUNICIPAL MIDWIVES, 1939.
Miss Andrews Mrs. Jameson Miss Hughes | Total | |||
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Confinements attended | 128 | 63 | 64 | 255 |
Ante-natal Clinics attended | 72 | 33 | 12 | 117 |
do. visits | 458 | 290 | 241 | 989 |
Post-natal visits | 1,757 | 1,464 | 933 | 4,154 |