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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Willesden 1914

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]

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Table: Table No.8.

Table No.8.

Nature of work to be undertaken or provision to be made.Estimated No. of cases per ann. which will come under supervision.* Estimated No. of Assistant Medical Officers required.Estimated No. of beds required.
Local supervision of midwives24......
Ante-natal Clinic4080.41...
Home Visiting of Expectant Mothers40.07...
Hospital beds for complicated cases of pregnancyw 4...1
†Skilled and prompt attendance during confinement at home1150.28...
Hospital beds for difficult cases or child birth20...2
Hospital beds for complications in in mother after birth39...3
Hospital beds for complications in infant after birth26...2
Baby Clinic703 (ill) 1536 (under supervision)2.4...
Hospital beds for:—
Diarrhœ, Enteritis183...56††
Measles123...38††
Whooping Cough117...36††
Bronchitis87...13**
Pneumonia201...31**
Clinic for children between 1-5 years110384.0...
Home visitation of children between 1-5 years
Dental Clinic for children up to 5 years, say 3-5 years72091 dentist...

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Feeding of expectant mothers and children up to 5 years.
Schools for mothers.
"The estimated time of an assistant medical officer per annum is 1656
hours.
†This does not include provision for attendances at miscarriages, of
which there are probably 200 per annum in Willesden.
††These figures are based on a three months' prevalence of the disease
and four weeks' duration in hospital.
**These figures are based on a six months' prevalence of the disease
and four weeks' duration in hospital.