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Holborn 1926

Report for the year 1926 of the Medical Officer of Health

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In 103 cases visits were not made for the following reasons: —

Infants died before visit due19
Infants died before information of birth received10
Above the standard for visitation74
103

Home Visiting.

The visits paid to the homes by the Health Visitors during the year were as follows:—

First Visits.Revisits.Total.
Expectant Mothers85145230
Children under 1 year of age5021,7072,209
Children 1 to 2 years of age6501507
Children over 2 years of age11712723
Enquiries re stillbirths12
„ re ophthalmia neonatorum12
Other visits169

In addition 323 visits were made by Student Health Visitors.
Four hundred and twenty visits related to infants who came under further
observation in their own homes or at Infant Welfare Centres, of these five died
before reasonably old enough to attend an Infant Welfare Centre, and 35 removed
from the Borough before the age of one month or did not return to the Borough
after the birth of the child, leaving 380 infants as possible attendants at a
Maternity and Child Welfare Centre; of this number 249 were recorded as
attending a Centre, i.e., 66 per cent.
The Centres attended were the following: —
192 attended the Council's M. & C. W. Centre at 10, John Street.
23 „ ,, Short's Gardens.
7 attended the Centre at Onslow Street School, Saffron Hill.
1 ,, ,, Charing Cross Hospital.
6 ,, ,, Myddelton Square.
9 ,, ,, Middlesex Hospital.
3 ,, ,, University College Hospital.
5 ,, ,, Royal Free Hospital.
3 ,, ,, Other Centres.
249 attended an Infant Welfare Centre.
Thus more than one-half of those visited attended an Infant Welfare Centre,
and of these well over four-fifths attended the Council's Centres.
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