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 6
1952 | 1951 | 1950 | |||||
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As Midwife | 496 | 589 | 708 | ||||
As Maternity Nurse | 59 | 71 | 154 | ||||
Totals | 555 | 660 | 862 | ||||
Administration of Gas and Air Analgesia by County Council Domiciliary Midwives:— | |||||||
1952 | 1951 | 1950 | |||||
As Midwife | 360 | 368 | 352 | ||||
As Maternity Nurse | 36 | 30 | 89 | ||||
Totals | 396 | 398 | 441 | ||||
Medical Aid:— | 1952 | 1951 | 1950 | ||||
(a) Number of domiciliary cases in which medical aid was summoned:— | |||||||
(i) where tho modical practitioner had arranged to provide the patient with maternity medical services under the National Health Service | 34 | 12 | 24 | ||||
(ii) Others | 100 | 166 | 162 | ||||
(b) For cases in institutions | 11 | 13 | 5 | ||||
Totals | 145 | 191 | 191 |
HEALTH VISITING
Section 24
Each health visitor is attached to a maternity and child welfare
centre in the area which is near to the district which she covers for home
visiting. By this means each mother associates the health visitor with
the ante-natal, infant welfare, school health and other special clinics
which are held in the centre near to her home. This arrangement makes
for accessibility, ease of approach and confidence in continuity on both
sides when visiting, advice or assistance are required.
Apart from home visiting and clinic duties health visitors have been
engaged on completing questionnaires for special investigations for
for such bodies as the Ministry of Health, the Medical Research
Council, the National Birthday Trust and the Institute of Child Health,
and have provided other reports for no less than twenty-two different
hospitals in or near the London area.
Health visiting in schools also takes up a proportion of each health
visitor's time. This includes attendance at routine hygiene examinations
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