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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 1937

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

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Table: Out-patient Midwifery Departments of General Hospitals and Institutions:—

Out-patient Midwifery Departments of General Hospitals and Institutions:—

Externa and others17
Midwives.—University College Hospital4
Middlesex Hospital3
Other Institutions13
Training Institution for Midwives, Myddelton
Square22
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None of these notifications related to stillbirths.
Number of Births.
The number of births transferred to the Borough from outlying
institutions was 174
The number of births transferred from the Borough to other
districts was 7
The net number of births belonging to the Borough was 284
There are no maternity hospitals or lying-in institutions in the Borough, but
maternity cases are admitted to a nursing home in the area.

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 Mothers194266460
Post-natal Mothers6915
Children under 1 year of age3116981,009
Children 1 to 2 years of age17344361
Children over 1 years of age46778824
Enquiries re stillbirths12
„ re ophthalmia neonatorum5
Other visits230

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Two hundred and eighty-eight visits related to infants who came under further
observation in their own homes or at Infant Welfare Centres; of this number 223
were recorded as attending a Centre, i.e., 77.4 per cent.
Thus nearly five-sixths of those visited attended an Infant Welfare Centre and of
these 87-4 per cent, attended at the Council s Centres.
Attendances at Infant Welfare Centres.
The Centres attended were the following:—
164 attended the Council's M. & C. W. Centre at 10, John Street.
31 „ „ „ „ Short's Gardens.
5 attended tlie Centre at Charing Cross Hospital.
3 „ „ Myddelton Square.
4 ., „ Middlesex Hospital.
9 „ ,, University College Hospital.
1 „ „ Royal Free Hospital,
6 „ „ other Centres.
223 attended an Infant Welfare Centre.
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