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Wimbledon 1945
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
The total number of visits paid by the Health Visitors during
1945 amounted to 9,427, the figure for the previous year being 8,839.
Details of the home visits carried out are given below:—
| Number of Infants visited—first visits | 703 | |
| Number of Infants visited—revisits | 1,641 | |
| Number of Toddlers visited | 2,354 | |
| Ante-natal—first visits | 526 | |
| Ante-natal—revisits — | 157 | |
| Visits re Infant deaths | 2 | |
| ,, „ Stillbirths | 11 | |
| ,, „ Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 6 | |
| ,, „ Puerperal Pyrexia | 1 | |
| ,, „ Non-notifiable and notifiable Infectious Diseases | 104 | |
| „ Midwives | 4 | |
| „ Milk applications | 17 | |
| „ Foster Children | 327 | |
| Miscellaneous | 635 | |
| Total Welfare visits | 6,488 | |
| Visits—School Health Service | 1,703 | |
| Tuberculosis—Home visits | 58 | |
| Visits to Nursing Homes | 16 | |
| Other visits | 73 | |
| Ineffectual visits | 1,089 | |
| 2,939 | ||
| Total visits | 9,427 |
The Maternity and Child Welfare Centres remained open throughout
the year. At Pelham Road Centre two sessions per week were
held. The average attendance at the Tuesday sessions was 61.49,
and at the Friday sessions 63.79. At the Cottenham Park Centre the
average weekly attendance was 71.21. The average attendance at
the Wandle Park Centre was 47.82. The Centre at Wimbledon Park,
which was opened in 1943, showed an average weekly attendance
of 75.10.
Ante-natal Clinic.
The Pelham Road Ante-Natal Clinic continued to be held on
Monday and Saturday each week, the average attendances being 17.11
and 12.82 respectively. The Ante-natal Clinic at Wandle Park was
held every other Thursday. The average attendance was 10.4
Midwifery and Maternity Services.—Midwives Act, 1936.
A service of whole-time domiciliary midwives is provided by the
Wimbledon District Nursing and Midwifery Association under an
agreement with the Council.
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