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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

Holborn 1933

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

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Home Visiting.

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

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

First Visits.Revisits.Total.
Expectant Mothers187227414
Post-natal Mothers10818
Children under 1 year of age3277521,079
Children 1 to 2 years of age15299314
Children over 2 years of age46649695
Enquiries re stillbirths18
„ re ophthalmia neonatorum4
Other visits291

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Two hundred and seventy visits related to infants who came under
further observation in their own homes or at Infant Welfare Centres; of this
number 221 were recorded as attending a Centre, i.e., 82 per cent.
Thus five-sixths of those visited attended an Infant Welfare Centre and of these
nearly 84 per cent. attended the Council's Centres.
Attendances at Infant Welfare Centres.
The Centres attended were the following:—
165 attended the Council's M. &, C. W. Centre at 10, John Street.
21 „ „ „ „ Short's Gardens.
4 attended the Centre at Onslow Street School, Saffron Hill.
8 „ „ Charing Cross Hospital.
8 „ „ Myddelton Square.
3 „ „ Middlesex Hospital.
4 „ ,, University College Hospital.
6 „ „ Royal Free Hospital.
2 „ „ other Centres.
221 attended an Infant Welfare Centre.

Table: Work at Centres. Holborn Centre, 10, John Street. The following is an analysis of the attendance at this Municipal Centre:

Work at Centres. Holborn Centre, 10, John Street. The following is an analysis of the attendance at this Municipal Centre:

Monday.Tuesday.Tuesday.Wednesday.Thursday.Friday.
Medical Consultation Pre-school child 2-4.30 p.m.Ante-natal and Postnatal cases 2-4.30 p.m.Medical Consultations.Medical Consultation 2-4.30 p.m.Class 3-4 p.m.Dentist. 2-4 p.m.Medical Consultation 2-4.20 p.m.
No. of Sessions49515152435251
Total attendances-
Children815......2004...1071373
Mothers222054311384180320
Average weekly attendances—
Children17......40...227
Mothers...416936