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 Enfield]
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TABLE 12 MIDWIFERY
Midwives who Notified their intention to Practise within the Borough during 1969
Domiciliary | Institutional | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Employed by the Borough | In Private Practice | Hospitals | Nursing Homes | Total |
25 | — | 126 | — | 151 |
TABLE 13 MIDWIFERY Care of Premature Infants
Number of Premature Babies Born at Home | Premature Babies Born and Nursed at Home | ||
---|---|---|---|
Number | Died during first 24 hours | Survived to end of 28 days | |
41 | 38 | — | 37 |
TABLE 14 HEALTH VISITING Visits to Homes by Health Visitors
Home Visits to : | * Number of Visits | |
---|---|---|
First Visits | Total Visits | |
Expectant Mothers | 1,069 | 1,746 |
Children born in 1969 | 3,773 | 11,784 |
born in 1968 | 3,628 | 9,561 |
born in 1964.67 | 8,731 | 19,824 |
Persons aged 65 years and over | 1,066 | 3,080 |
Mentally Disordered Persons | 64 | 262 |
Patients discharged from Hospitals (other than Mental and Maternity) | 193 | 249 |
Infectious disease Households | 36 | 44 |
Miscellaneous | 972 | 2,260 |
TOTALS | 19,532 | 48,810 |
* This Table excludes visits by Tuberculosis Health Visitors. |
TABLE 15 HOME NURSING Work Undertaken by the Home Nurses
Number of Visits | Number of Patients | Number of Patients under the age of 5 years | Number of Patients aged 65 years or over | Number of Visits of over one hour duration included in the Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
121,842 | 3,733 | 120 | 2,274 | 968 |