Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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TABLE H.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE WORK, 1926.
Nature of Work. | Centres. | Totals. | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. 1. | No.2 | No. 3. | ||||||
Number of ordinary sessions held | 197 | 93 | 51 | 341 | ||||
Number of ante-natal sessions held | 50 | 23 | 12 | 85 | ||||
Number of individual Mothers seen by Doctor:— Ante-natal, New eases | 162 | 67 | 36 | 265 | ||||
„ Old case* | 338 | 159 | 66 | 562 | ||||
Post-natal, New cases | 70 | 36 | 11 | 117 | ||||
,, Old caBss | 83 | 47 | 61 | 191 | ||||
Total attendances of Mothers | 979 | 390 | 174 | 1,543 | ||||
Number of babies attending Centres for first time | 468 | 251 | 185 | 894 | ||||
Number of individual babies on Centre registers | 988 | 488 | 340 | 1,816 | ||||
Attendance of babies at medical consultations | 5,043 | 2,746 | 1,393 | 9,182 | ||||
Total attendances of babies at Centres | 7,696 | 4,158 | 2,757 | 14,611 | ||||
Referred to own private doctors | 70 | 61 | 7 | 138 | ||||
Referred to hospitals | 100 | 52 | 17 | 169 | ||||
Health talks given by nurses | 24 | 28 | 26 | 78 | ||||
Examinations in Mothercraft | 2 | — | 1 | 3 | ||||
Lectures to parents | — | — | 2 | 2 | ||||
First visits | Total visits | First visits | Total visits | First visits | Tota v isit | First visits | Total visits | |
Visits paid by nurses:— To expectant mothers | 110 | 142 | 47 | 79 | 37 | 62 | 194 | 283 |
To infants under one year | 616 | 2,591 | 326 | 1,342 | 288 | 953 | 1,230 | 4,886 |
To children aged 1-5 years | 51 | 2,272 | 18 | 1,695 | 55 | 957 | 124 | 4 924 |
Total visits paid by nurses | 777 | 5,005 | 391 | 3,116 | 380 | 1,972 | 1,548 | 10,093 |
RECORD OF WORK OF MUNICIPAL MIDWIFE, 1926.
Confinements attended | 153 |
Ante-natal Clinics attended | 74 |
do. visits | 321 |
Post-natal visits | 2,171 |