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, 1936.
Nature of Work. | Centres. | |||||||
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No. 1. | No. 2. | No. 3 and Sub-Centre. | Totals. | |||||
Number of sessions held | 194 | 99 | 70 | 363 | ||||
" ante natal sessions held | 51 | 24 | 24 | 99 | ||||
Number of individual Mothers seen by Doctor:— Ante natal, New cases | 167 | 70 | 72 | 309 | ||||
,, Old cases | 385 | 145 | 136 | 666 | ||||
Post-natal, New cases | 44 | 15 | 6 | 65 | ||||
,, Old cases | 4 | 17 | 3 | 24 | ||||
600 | 247 | 217 | 1,064 | |||||
Total attendances of Mothers | 847 | 284 | 217 | 1,348 | ||||
Number of babies attending Centres for first time : Under 1 year | 312 | 192 | 149 | 653 | ||||
1—3 years | 64 | 31 | 33 | 128 | ||||
3.5 „ | 19 | 10 | 22 | 51 | ||||
Number of individual babies on Centre registers: Under 1 year | 306 | 176 | 121 | 603 | ||||
1—5 years | 652 | 304 | 321 | 1,277 | ||||
Babies Been by Doctor | 2,507 | 1,458 | 838 | 4,803 | ||||
Attendances of babies at medical consultations | 3,434 | 2,010 | 988 | 6,432 | ||||
Total attendances of babies at Centres: Under 1 year | 4,893 | 2,490 | 1,379 | 8,762 | ||||
1—3 years | 2,686 | 714 | 502 | 3,902 | ||||
3-5 " | 862 | 189 | 211 | 1,262 | ||||
Referred to own private doctors | 86 | 27 | 8 | 121 | ||||
Referred to hospitals | 164 | 19 | 6 | 189 | ||||
Visits paid by nurses:- | First visits | Total visits | First visits | Total visits | First visits | Total | Grand First | Totals Total |
To expectant mothers | 120 | 197 | 77 | 134 | 63 | 97 | 260 | 428 |
To infants under one year | 504 | 1.915 | 334 | 1,688 | 299 | 860 | 1,137 | 4,463 |
To children aged 1-5 years | 135 | 3,460 | 63 | 1,497 | 97 | 1,663 | 295 | 6,620 |
Total visit paid by Nurses | 759 | 5,572 | 474 | 3,319 | 459 | 2,620 | 1,692 | 11,511 |
CHILDREN ACTS— Visits paid to Foster Children | 21 | 198 | 24 | 236 | 5 | 80 | 50 | 514 |
RECORD OP WORK OF MUNICIPAL MIDWIFE, 1936.
Confinements attended | 189 |
Ante.natal Clinics attended | 88 |
do. visits | 649 |
Post-natal visits | 2,476 |