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, 1944.
Nature of Work. | Centres. | Totals. | ||||||||
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Town Hall | Burgoyne Hall | Church Road | Coldfall | |||||||
Number of Children's sessions held | 234 | 91 | 103 | 55 | 483 | |||||
,, ante-natal sessions held | 133 | 56 | 40 | 45 | 274 | |||||
Number of individual Mothers seen by Doctor:— | ||||||||||
Ante-natal, New cases | 456 | 172 | 162 | 108 | 898 | |||||
,, Old cases | 1,836 | 602 | 349 | 404 | 3,191 | |||||
Post-natal. New cases | 66 | 68 | 55 | 4 | 193 | |||||
,, Old cases | 10 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 47 | |||||
2.368 | 842 | 566 | 553 | 4,329 | ||||||
Total attendances of Mothers | 2,889 | 828 | 613 | 704 | 5,034 | |||||
Number of babies attending Centres for first time : Under 1 year | 552 | 269 | 220 | 184 | 1,225 | |||||
1—3 years | 48 | 16 | 78 | 26 | 163 | |||||
3—5 „ | 12 | 8 | 22 | 6 | 48 | |||||
Number of individual babies on Centre registers at end of 1944 | 1,445 | 683 | 470 | 325 | 2,923 | |||||
Babies seen by Doctor | 3,989 | 1,903 | 571 | 605 | 7,068 | |||||
Attendances of babies at medical consultations | 6,682 | 4,441 | 726 | 605 | 12,454 | |||||
Total attendances of babies at Centres : Under 1 year | 7,148 | 3,345 | 1,804 | 1,756 | 14,053 | |||||
1—3 years | 3,221 | 925 | 442 | 330 | 4,918 | |||||
3-5 „ | 527 | 171 | 101 | 48 | 847 | |||||
Referred to own private doctors | 21 | 6 | 15 | 41 | 83 | |||||
Referred to hospitals | 61 | 15 | 37 | 37 | 150 | |||||
Visits paid by nurses:— | Firat visits | Total visits | First visits | Total visits | First visits | Total visits | First Visits | Total visits | Grand First visits | Totals Total visit |
To expectant mothers | 98 | 179 | 65 | 85 | 33 | 98 | 50 | 65 | 246 | 427 |
To infants under one year | 592 | 1,786 | 179 | 371 | 213 | 1,139 | 196 | 467 | 1,180 | 3,763 |
To children aged 1-5 years | 363 | 2,812 | 137 | 447 | 35 | 556 | 22 | 431 | 557 | 4,246 |
Total visits | 1,053 | 4,777 | 381 | 903 | 281 | 1,793 | 268 | 963 | 1,983 | 8.436 |
CHILD LIRE PROTECTION— Visits paid to Foster Children | 10 | 100 | 23 | 153 | 1 | 35 | 1 | 24 | 35 | 312 |
RECORD OF WORK OF MUNICIPAL MIDWIVES, 1944.
Midwife | Confinements attended | Ante-natal Clinics attended | Ante-natal visits | Post-natal visits |
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Miss Andrews | 115 | 42 | 462 | 1,428 |
Miss Hughes | 74 | 75 | 207 | 1,091 |
Miss Matthews | 81 | 41 | 238 | 999 |
Mrs. Thompson | 27 | 26 | 108 | 371 |
Miss Jones | 60 | 48 | 279 | 1,002 |
Miss Buckeridge | 8 | 17 | 25 | 128 |
Mrs. Jamison | — | - | — | 1,143 |