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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
Marylebone 1921
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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STATEMENT SHOWING WORK AT INFANT CONSULTATIONS AND ANTE-NATAL CLINIC CENTRES DURING THE YEAR ENDING 31 ST DECEMBER, 1921.
| CENTRE. | Barrow Hill Road. | No. 14 Salisbury Street. | Queen Charlotte's Hospl. | No 101 Crawford Street. | No. 30 Marylebone Lane. | No. 8 Ogle Mews. | The Middlesex Hospl. | The Westn. Genl. Dispy. | * The Church Army Dispy. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of consultations held | 50 | 280 (232 children 48 maternity) | 308 (256 antenatal 52 infants) | 100 | 98 | 50 | 134 | 86 | 27 |
| No. of attendances of mothers at ante - natal clinic | 616 | 7255 | 46 | 17 | |||||
| No. of attendances of babies | 1178 | 4560 | 1283 | 1865 | 1784 | 1115 | 2784 | 422 | 300 |
| No. of attendances of children over 2 years | 79 | 868 | 33 | 201 | 151 | 132 | 996 | 1412 | 32 |
| No. of orders issued for milk, etc. | 308 | 2245 | 254 | 433 | 110 | 63 | 176 | 25 | 4 |
| No. of home visits | 440 | 4652 | 852 | 861 | 794 | 545 | 1427 | 24 | 148 |
| No. of new cases | 125 | 510 | 4068 | 154 | 156 | 78 | 302 | 309 | 23 |
| * Consultation at this Dispensary was first held in May, 1921. | |||||||||
The St. Marylebone Babies' Nursing Home, 20, Marlborough Place, N.W.8
Admissions 44. Discharges 38. Deaths 1
Average number in the Home throughout the year 11
(Home closed during February and re-opened 22nd March.)
Day Nurseries—Attendances during the year.
St. John's Wood, Barrow Hill Road 6738
Portman, Exeter Street 7015
Home Helps.—A system of providing assistance in carrying out the work of the
home to expectant, nursing or ailing mothers was in operation throughout the year.
The women employed were found by and were well known to the health visitors,
who also noted the cases in which assistance was required. The number of cases in
which home helps were employed in 1921 was 22. The average time for which the
help was required was 6 weeks (the longest being 16 weeks) and the shortest 10 days.
The total amount expended during the financial year to 31st March, 1922, was
£35 11s. 0d., the payments made to the helps being at the rate of 25/- per week,
part of which in most cases was paid by the person receiving the assistance of the
Home Help.