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London County Council 1957

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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HEALTH VISITING AND NURSING SERVICES

Table: In addition to clinic and other duties these health visitors made 810,358 home visits, details of which are given in the following table :

In addition to clinic and other duties these health visitors made 810,358 home visits, details of which are given in the following table :

Home visits19531954195519561957
Expectant mothers:—
First24,60824,73922,99923,14323,482
Revisit19,22319,42819,43621,42221,994
Per cent. of notified live- and still-births4747454443
Still-births1,2561,2531,0321,1731,080
Children under 1—
First48,38149,38148,22551,96052,171
Revisit173,309182,295174,864173,774169,760
*Per cent. of live-births959797*10098
Children 1 to 5376,153377,130362,764357,215354,643
Care of old people65,45063,76477,01412,84212,465
Miscellaneous .. f66,82374,513
Unsuccessful124,124118,155110,149103,600100,250
TOTAL832,504836,145816,483811,952810,358

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*The true percentage may be somewhat less, but it is not practicable to exclude from the year's figures a small number
of immigrants and of children visited in the year but born in the previous year.
Included in the figures given in the above table for 1957 there were 2,694 visits to
premature babies and 17,161 visits to problem families.
Home visiting and medical follow-up of children attending the Council's schools is
undertaken by voluntary children's care committee workers, trained and organised by
social workers employed in the Education Officer's and public health departments.
The integration of the health visiting and school nursing services has continued. In
December, 1954, 275 members of the staff were engaged on combined health visiting
and school nursing duties. In 1955, 1956 and 1957 the figures were 283, 327 and 327
respectively.
Training of
student
health
visitors
Details of the Council's scheme for training student health visitors are given on
page 147.
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