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, 1941.
Nature of Work. | Centres. | Totals. | ||||||||
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No. 1. | No. 2. | No. 3. | No. 4. | |||||||
Number of sessions held | 200 | 102 | 49 | 63 | 414 | |||||
,, ante-natal sessions held | 101 | 50 | 40 | 12 | 203 | |||||
Number of individual Mothers seen by Doctor:— | ||||||||||
Ante natal, New cases | 330 | 138 | 156 | 40 | 664 | |||||
,, Old cases | 946 | 518 | 397 | 85 | 1.946 | |||||
Post natal, New cases | 41 | 32 | 30 | 0 | 103 | |||||
,, Old cases | 9 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 22 | |||||
1,3.26 | 689 | 590 | 130 | 2,735 | ||||||
Total attendances of Mothers | 1,875 | 672 | 594 | 130 | 3,271 | |||||
Number of babies attending Centres for first time : Under 1 year | 433 | 178 | 140 | 45 | 796 | |||||
1-3 years | 102 | 42 | 34 | 19 | 197 | |||||
3-5 " | 61 | 19 | 10 | 8 | 98 | |||||
Number of individual babies on Centre registers | 1,132 | 494 | 293 | 160 | 2,079 | |||||
Babies seen by Doctor | 3,322 | 2,154 | 913 | 190 | 6,579 | |||||
Attendances of babies at medical consultations | 4,375 | 3,178 | 1,373 | 192 | 9,118 | |||||
Total attendances of babies at Centres : Under 1 year | 5,594 | 2,291 | 1,343 | 547 | 9,775 | |||||
1—3 years | 2,942 | 959 | 349 | 217 | 4,467 | |||||
3-5 " | 660 | 321 | 69 | 99 | 1,149 | |||||
Refarred to own private doctors | 55 | 10 | 6 | 13 | 84 | |||||
Referred to hospitals | 56 | 8 | 21 | 8 | 93 | |||||
Grand Total | ||||||||||
Visits paid by nurses: — | First visits | Total visits | First visits | Total visits | First visits | Total visits | First Visits | Total Visits | First visits | Total visits |
To expectant mothers | 88 | 172 | 91 | 119 | 76 | 159 | 25 | 62 | 280 | 512 |
To infants under one year | 436 | 2,111 | 123 | 392 | 241 | 669 | 28 | 228 | 828 | 3,400 |
To children aged 1-5 years | 133 | 2,943 | 125 | 770 | 152 | 938 | 28 | 349 | 438 | 5,000 |
Total visits | 657 | 5,226 | 339 | 1,281 | 469 | 1,766 | 81 | 639 | 1,546 | 8,912 |
CHILD LIFE PROTECTION— Visits paid to Foster Children | 16 | 164 | 10 | 117 | 10 | 51 | 2 | 13 | 38 | 345 |
RECORD OF WORK OF MUNICIPAL MIDWIVES, 1941.
Miss Andrews | Mrs. Jamison | Miss Hughes | Miss Matthews | Total | |
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Confinements attended | 115 | 40 | 65 | 77 | 297 |
Ante-natal Clinics attended | 59 | 33 | 47 | 47 | 186 |
do. visits | 374 | 175 | 241 | 113 | 903 |
Post-natal visits | 1,691 | 988 | 1,173 | 1,245 | 5,097 |