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. 1942.
Nature of Work. | Centres. | Totals. | ||||||||
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No. 1. | No. 2. | No. 3. | No. 4. | |||||||
Number of Children's sessions held | 240 | 128 | 50 | 62 | 480 | |||||
,, antenatal sessions held | 124 | 61 | 55 | 15 | 255 | |||||
Number of individual Mothers seen by Doctor:— | ||||||||||
Ante-natal, New cases | 450 | 184 | 169 | 54 | 857 | |||||
,, Old cases | 1,155 | 668 | 577 | 148 | 2,548 | |||||
Post-natal, New cases | 46 | 34 | 112 | 0 | 192 | |||||
„ Old cases | 14 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 32 | |||||
1,665 | 892 | 865 | 207 | 3,629 | ||||||
Total attendances of Mothers | 2,603 | 884 | 889 | 207 | 4,583 | |||||
Number of babies attending Centres for first time: Under 1 year | 512 | 264 | 209 | 71 | 1,056 | |||||
13 years | 112 | 41 | 33 | 15 | 201 | |||||
3—5 | 49 | 22 | 10 | 7 | 88 | |||||
Number of individual babies on Centre registers at end of 1942 | 1,374 | 644 | 439 | 105 | 2,622 | |||||
Babies seen by Doctor | 4,061 | 2,703 | 940 | 220 | 7,924 | |||||
Attendances of babies at medical consultations | 5,249 | 5,925 | 1,813 | 240 | 13,227 | |||||
Total attendances of babies at Centres: Under 1 year | 7,627 | 4,067 | 2,275 | 1,056 | 15,025 | |||||
1—3 years | 3,779 | 1,232 | 575 | 175 | 5,761 | |||||
3—5 ,, | 736 | 311 | 79 | 57 | 1,183 | |||||
Referred to own private doctors | 61 | 24 | 15 | 22 | 122 | |||||
Referred to hospitals | 119 | 24 | 38 | 20 | 201 | |||||
Visits paid by nurses:— | First visits | Total visits | First visits | Total visits | First visits | Total visits | First Visits | Total Visits | Grand First visits | Totals Total visits |
To expectant mothers | 66 | 146 | 55 | 62 | 50 | 101 | 29 | 53 | 200 | 362 |
To infants under one year | 551 | 2,494 | 145 | 274 | 283 | 772 | 32 | 182 | 1,011 | 3,722 |
To children aged 1-5 years | 92 | 2,917 | 103 | 308 | 77 | 861 | 9 | 329 | 281 | 4,415 |
Total visits | 709 | 5,557 | 303 | 644 | 410 | 1,734 | 70 | 564 | 1,492 | 8,499 |
CHILD LIFE PROTECTION— Visits paid to Foster Children | 16 | 144 | 11 | 74 | 6 | 55 | 4 | 19 | 37 | 292 |
RECORD OF WORK OF MUNICIPAL MIDWIVES, 1942.
Miss Andrews | Miss Hughes | Miss Matthews | Mrs. Thompson | Mrs. Jamison | Total | |
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Confinements attended | 160 | 93 | 107 | 14 | 100 | 474 |
Ante-natal Clinics attended | 62 | 64 | 49 | 17 | 55 | 247 |
do. visits | 533 | 283 | 207 | 89 | 557 | 1,669 |
Post-natal visits | 2,151 | 1,490 | 1,588 | 242 | 1,826 | 7,297 |