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Kensington 1932

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]

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27
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
Under the borough council's scheme of maternity and child welfare work, complete arrangements
are made for the medical supervision of children under the age of five years, and for the
care and after-care of expectant and nursing mothers. The scheme includes infant welfare
centres, day nurseries, ante-natal clinics, a maternity home, hospital and convalescent treatment,
the supply of extra nourishment, home nursing and various other services which can be of help
in the effort to reduce infant and maternal mortality. During the year under review there has
been no change of note in the services provided by the council, and the scheme has worked
smoothly.
WOMEN HEALTH OFFICERS.

Table: Seven women health officers are attached to the infant welfare centres serving the borough, and the work performed by these officers during the year 1932 in regard to maternity and child welfare is summarised in the following table :—

Seven women health officers are attached to the infant welfare centres serving the borough, and the work performed by these officers during the year 1932 in regard to maternity and child welfare is summarised in the following table :—

Description of work.Health officers.
No. 1.No. 2.No. 3.No 4.No. 5.No. 6.No. 7.Total.
First visits to infants (0-1 year)362241259358401772031,901
Re-visits to infants (0-1 year)4234655357231,0792564663,947
Visits to children between 1 and 5 years1,0511,0281,1466738746367966,204
Still-birth enquiries76135111750
Visits to ophthalmia cases71079112—46
Return visits to ophthalmia cases5211816331—94
Visits to measles cases135199210613231682141,310
Visits to whooping cough cases236439131018672398
Visits to puerperal fever cases—12—2——5
Visits to puerperal pyrexia cases745371330
Visits to enteritis cases5411371321——136
Infantile death enquiries37262430341018179
Investigations re milk applications2664544470277141361,252
Ante-natal visits1117211011483143204837
Half-days at welfare centres183143127123196103115990
Special visits1993032803111813493882,011

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The visiting in connection with tuberculosis and factories and workshops is dealt with in the
sections of this report dealing with those subjects, and a complete record of the work performed
by each woman health officer during the year appears in Table V of Appendix II.