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 I.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE WORK, 1932.
Nature of Work. | Centres. | Totals. | ||||||
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No. 1. | No. 2. | No. 3 and Sub-Centre. | ||||||
Number of sessions held | 197 | 122 | 73 | 392 | ||||
,, ante natal sessions held | 50 | 27 | 24 | 101 | ||||
Number of individual Mothers seen by Doctor:— | ||||||||
Aute-natal, New cases | 228 | 91 | 59 | 378 | ||||
,, Old cases | 322 | 127 | 104 | 553 | ||||
Post natal, New cases | 61 | 39 | 1 | 101 | ||||
„ Old cases | 14 | 9 | - | 23 | ||||
625 | 266 | 164 | 1,055 | |||||
Total attendances of Mothers | 903 | 344 | 156 | 1,403 | ||||
Number of babies attending Centres for first time : Under 1 year ... | 336 | 176 | 146 | 658 | ||||
1-5 years | 86 | 44 | 50 | 180 | ||||
Number of individual babies on Centre registers: Under 1 year | 295 | 199 | 116 | 610 | ||||
1-5 years .. | 625 | 249 | 361 | 1,235 | ||||
Attendances of babies at medical consultations | 3,325 | 2,089 | 1,044 | 6,458 | ||||
Babies seen by Doctor | 2,411 | 1,391 | 814 | 4,616 | ||||
Total attendances of babies at Centres : Under 1 year | 5,107 | 2,126 | 1,765 | 8,998 | ||||
1-5 years | 3,069 | 1,175 | 848 | 5,092 | ||||
Referred to own private doctors | 18 | 37 | 3 | 58 | ||||
Referred to hospitals | 134 | 51 | 6 | 191 | ||||
Health talks given by nurses | - | 26 | 1 | 27 | ||||
Grand Total | ||||||||
Visits paid by nurses: — | First visits | Total visits | First visits | Total visits | First visits | Total visits | First visits | Total visits |
To expectant mothers | 95 | 167 | 80 | 140 | 70 | 118 | 245 | 425 |
To infants under one year | 509 | 2,454 | 287 | 1,368 | 287 | 1,090 | 1,083 | 4,912 |
To children aged 1-5 years | 99 | 3,266 | 66 | 1,825 | 61 | 1,589 | 226 | 6,680 |
Total visits paid by Nurses | 703 | 5,887 | 433 | 3,333 | 418 | 2,797 | 1,554 | 12,017 |
CHILDREN ACTS— | ||||||||
visits paid to Foster Children | 20 | 154 | 8 | 82 | 1 | 74 | 29 | 310 |
RECORD OF WORK OF MUNICIPAL MIDWIFE, 1932.
Confinements attended 161
Ante-natal Clinics attended 75
do. visits 507
Post-natal visits 2,119