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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

Chelsea 1939

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chelsea, 1939

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Table: TABLE No. 26.Summary of Reports of Health: Visitors.

TABLE No. 26.

Summary of Reports of Health: Visitors.

19381939
(1) Work of the Health Visitors.
First visits to Infants under one year of age382319
Return1,5451252
First visits to Children between the ages of 1 and 5 years268245
Return visits to Children between the ages of 1 and 5 years2,6002,196
Ante-natal visits to Expectant Mothers:—
Primi-para cases139103
Multi-para160164
Return visits570590
Visits to Enteritis cases amongst children-1
Return visits--
Visits to Ophthalmia Neonatorum cases15
Return visits35
Visits to Whooping Cough cases (under 5 years of age)22110
Return visits21103
Visits to Measles cases (under 5 years of age)27511
Return visits269—
Visits to Measles cases (over 5 years of age)1676
Return visits121-
General additional visits842648
Total visits7,3855,458
Half-day attendances at Infant Welfare Centres586624
Half-day attendances at Play Centre209135
(2) Infant Welfare Centres.Total number of attendances:—
(a) By children under one year of age4,0343,643
(b) By children between the ages of 1 and 5 years3,1672,914
(c) By Ante-Natal mothers850898
(d) By Post-Natal mothers2026
Total attendances8,0714.514

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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.