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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MATERNITY STATISTICS. Ante-Natal, Natal and Post-Natal.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE WORK. 1943.
Nature of Work. | Centres. | Totals. | ||||||||
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No. 1. | No. 2. | No. 3. | No. 4. | |||||||
Number of Children's sessions held | 246 | 127 | 126 | 76 | 575 | |||||
,, ante-natal sessions held | 150 | 60 | 50 | 22 | 282 | |||||
Number of individual Mothers seen by Doctor:— Ante natal, New cases | 408 | 208 | 188 | 69 | 873 | |||||
,, Old cases | 1,429 | 719 | 587 | 253 | 2,988 | |||||
Post-natal. New cases | 97 | 54 | 47 | 3 | 201 | |||||
„ Old cases | 19 | 7 | 14 | 19 | 59 | |||||
1,953 | 988 | 836 | 344 | 4,121 | ||||||
Total attendances of Mothers | 2,897 | 1,030 | 928 | 379 | 5,234 | |||||
Number of babies attending Centres for first time: Under 1 year | 526 | 572 | 226 | 126 | 1,450 | |||||
1 3 years | 75 | 150 | 38 | 17 | 280 | |||||
3—5 „ | 26 | 22 | 19 | 9 | 76 | |||||
Number of individual babies on Centre registers at end of 1943 | 1,445 | 720 | 542 | 266 | 2,973 | |||||
Babies seen by Doctor | 4,561 | 2,645 | 869 | 541 | 8,616 | |||||
Attendances of babies at medical consultations | 5,951 | 6,879 | 1,299 | 550 | 14,679 | |||||
Total attendances of babies at Centres: Under 1 year | 9,493 | 5,002 | 2,677 | 1,907 | 19,079 | |||||
1—3 years | 4,139 | 1,775 | 759 | 244 | 6,917 | |||||
3—5 „ | 654 | 303 | 164 | 60 | 1,181 | |||||
Referred to own private doctors | 23 | 16 | 11 | 32 | 82 | |||||
Referred to hospitals | 109 | 22 | 39 | 21 | 191 | |||||
Visits paid by nurses:— | First visits | Total visits | First visits | Total visits | First visits | Total visits | First Visits | Total Visits | Grand First visits | Totals Total visits |
To expectant mothers | 83 | 153 | 60 | 77 | 56 | 180 | 33 | 59 | 232 | 469 |
To infants under one year | 603 | 2,218 | 203 | 393 | 275 | 907 | 179 | 306 | 1,260 | 3,824 |
To children aged 1-5 years | 94 | 2,789 | 98 | 359 | 45 | 452 | 17 | 132 | 254 | 3,732 |
Total visits | 780 | 5,160 | 361 | 829 | 376 | 1,539 | 229 | 497 | 1,746 | 8,025 |
CHILD LIFE PROTECTION— Visits paid to Foster Children | 7 | 118 | 9 | 77 | 8 | 53 | 5 | 30 | 29 | 278 |
RECORD OF WORK OF MUNICIPAL MIDWIVES, 1943.
Miss Andrews | Miss Hughes | Mist Matthews | Mrs. Thompson | Mrs. Jamison | Miss Jones | Total | |
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Confinements attended | 164 | 109 | 109 | 61 | — | 21 | 464 |
Ante-natal Clinics attended | 74 | 69 | 45 | 50 | — | 29 | 267 |
do. visits | 659 | 283 | 222 | 184 | — | 91 | 1,439 |
Post-natal visits | 1,859 | 1,453 | 1,489 | 924 | 1,547 | 275 | 7,547 |