London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Hornsey 1952

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]

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Table: TABLE 6

TABLE 6

195219511950
As Midwife496589708
As Maternity Nurse5971154
Totals555660862
Administration of Gas and Air Analgesia by County Council Domiciliary Midwives:—
195219511950
As Midwife360368352
As Maternity Nurse363089
Totals396398441
Medical Aid:—195219511950
(a) Number of domiciliary cases in which medical aid was summoned:—
(i) where tho modical practitioner had arranged to provide the patient with maternity medical services under the National Health Service341224
(ii) Others100166162
(b) For cases in institutions11135
Totals145191191

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HEALTH VISITING
Section 24
Each health visitor is attached to a maternity and child welfare
centre in the area which is near to the district which she covers for home
visiting. By this means each mother associates the health visitor with
the ante-natal, infant welfare, school health and other special clinics
which are held in the centre near to her home. This arrangement makes
for accessibility, ease of approach and confidence in continuity on both
sides when visiting, advice or assistance are required.
Apart from home visiting and clinic duties health visitors have been
engaged on completing questionnaires for special investigations for
for such bodies as the Ministry of Health, the Medical Research
Council, the National Birthday Trust and the Institute of Child Health,
and have provided other reports for no less than twenty-two different
hospitals in or near the London area.
Health visiting in schools also takes up a proportion of each health
visitor's time. This includes attendance at routine hygiene examinations
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