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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 1936

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

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

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

First Visits.Revisits.Total.
Expectant Mothers205271476
Post-natal Mothers3811
Children under 1 year of age307603910
Children 1 to 2 years of age18337355
Children over 2 years of age421,0641,106
Enquiries re stillbirths12
„ re ophthalmia
neonatorum3
Other visits143

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Two hundred and eighty visits related to infants who came under further
observation in their own homes or at Infant Welfare Centres; of this number 189
were recorded as attending a Centre, i.e., 68 per cent.
Thus nearly five-sixths of those visited attended an Infant Welfare Centre and of
these 82 per cent, attended the Council's Centres.
Attendances at Infant Welfare Centres.
The Centres attended were the following :—
126 attended the Council's M. & C. W. Centre at 10, John Street.
29 „ „ » .. Short's Gardens.
7 attended the Centre at Charing Cross Hospital.
8 „ ,, Myddelton Square.
6 „ „ Middlesex Hospital.
6 „ University College Hospital.
3 „ „ Royal Free Hospital.
4 „ „ other Centres.
189 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.Wednesday.Thursday.Friday.
Medical Consultation Pre-school child 2—4.30 p.m.Ante-natal and Post-natal cases 2—4.30 p.m.Medical Consultation 2—4.30 p.m.Class 3—4 p.m.Dentist. 2—4 p.m.Medical Consultation 2—4.30 p.m.
No. of Sessions486163346260
Total attendances— Children5691700...681165
Mothers16208271221208217
ATerage weekly attendances—
Children12...32...121
Mothers...46644