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Chelsea 1938

Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1938

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Table: TABLE No. 26. SUMMARY OF REPORTS OF HEALTH VISITORS.

TABLE No. 26. SUMMARY OF REPORTS OF HEALTH VISITORS.

1937.1938.
(1) Work of the Health Visitors.
First visits to Infants under one year of age397382
Return1,5861,545
First visits to Children between the ages of 1 and 5 years258268
Return visits to Children between the ages of 1 and 5 years2,6022,600
Ante-natal visits to Expectant Mothers :—
Primi-para cases114139
Multi-para „168160
Return visits421570
Visits to Enteritis cases amongst children6—
Return visits „ „ „ „——
Visits to Ophthalmia Neonatorum cases41
Return visits „ „ „13
Visits to Whooping Cough cases (under 5 years of age)8222
Return visits „ „ „3621
Visits to Measles cases (under 5 years of age)43275
Return visits „ „ „33269
Visits to Measles cases (over 5 years of age)25167
Return visits „ „ „2121
General additional visits848842
Total visits6,6267,385
Half-day attendances at Infant Welfare Centres537586
Half-day attendances at Play Centre171209
(2) Infant Welfare Centres.
Total number of attendances :—
(a) By children under one year of age4,0684,034
(6) By children between the ages of 1 and 6 years2,7823,167
(c) By Ante-Natal mothers710850
(d) By Post-Natal mothers2320
Total attendances7,5838,071

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ANTE-NATAL WORK.
Close attention is devoted to the work of ante-natal consultations, as
the figures in Table No. 26 demonstrate. Sound advice, based on the
most recent scientific investigation, is provided by the Medical Officer of
the Ante-natal Clinic. Every effort is being made to ensure that mothers
will take full advantage of the excellent arrangements made by the
Chelsea Health Society so that as far as possible all risk of disease and
accident incidental to childbirth may be removed.
Compensation to Midwives.—If the Medical Officer at the Antenatal
Clinic finds it necessary to recommend hospital treatment for an
expectant mother referred to him by a midwife, and the mother accepts
such advice, the Council make a payment of 10/- to the midwife as
compensation for loss of the case.
No case occurred during the year in which such compensation was
necessary.