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Kensington 1948
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]
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PART III OF NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE ACT, 1946
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE SERVICES, ETC.
Under this Act, certain services were transferred on
5th July, 1948, from the Jurisdiction of the Council to the
control of the London County Council and the Metropolitan Regional
Hospital Boards. For record purposes, the following main details
of the work carried out between 1st January and 4th July, 1948,
are set out:-
Health Visiting Staff
The work performed by the health visiting staff during the period from 1st January, 1948, to 4th July, 1948, in regard to maternity and child welfare is summarised in the following table:-
| First visits to infants (0-1 year) | ||
| Revisits to infants (0-1 year) | 3,719 | |
| Visits to children between 1 and 5 years | ||
| Stillbirth enquiries | ||
| Visits to ophthalmia neonatorum cases | 25 | |
| Visits to measles cases | 564 | |
| Visits to whooping cough cases | ||
| Visits to puerperal pyrexia cases | ||
| Visits to enteritis cases | 31 | |
| Infantile death enquiries | 54 | |
| Ante-natal visits | 1,215 | |
| Half-days at welfare centres | 1,697 | |
| Visits to foster mothers | ||
| Visits to registered daily guardians | ||
| Other visits | ||
Ante-Natal Clinics and Infant Welfare Centres
The work at these institutions during the period from 1st January, 1948, to 4th July, 1948, is shown in the following table:-
| Sessions at which doctors attended for ante-natal consultations | 461 |
| Individual mothers who attended antenatal consultations | 1,687 |
| Attendances of ante-natal mothers | 6,026 |
| Sessions at which doctors attended for post-natal consultations | 49 |
| Individual mothers who attended postnatal consultations | 135 |
| Sessions at which doctors attended for infant consultations | 451 |
| Individual children who attended for the first time:- | |
| 0-1 year | 1,099 |
| 1-5 years | 137 |
| Attendances of children at doctors' consultations:- | |
| 0-1 year | 4,778 |
| 1-5 years | 2,732 |
| Attendances at centres of children for all purposes:- | |
| 0-1 year | 18,991 |
| 1-5 years |