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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 1925

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]

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Table: STATEMENT SHOWING WORK AT INFANT CONSULTATIONS AND ANTE-NATAL CLINIC CENTRES DURING THE 52 WEEKS ENDING 31 ST DECEMBER, 1925.

STATEMENT SHOWING WORK AT INFANT CONSULTATIONS AND ANTE-NATAL CLINIC CENTRES DURING THE 52 WEEKS ENDING 31 ST DECEMBER, 1925.

CENTRE.No. 24 Hill Road.No. 14 Salisbury Street.Queen Charlotte's Hospl.Cosway Street.No. 30 Marylebone Lane.No. 8 Ogle Mews.The Middlesex Hospl-The Westn. Genl. Dispy.The Church Array Dispy.
No. of consultations held822513539491501518651
(201 children 50 mater- nity)(300 antenatal 50 in- fants)
No. of attendances of mothers at ante-natal clinic .49811,700-56---144
No. of attend-ances of babies .1,4774,1231,8201,7921,3291,2452,982374858
No. of attendances of children over 2 years1281,0792713821214481,0541,383177
No. of orders issued for milk, etc.70356801176789109510
No. of home visits .8283,7756491,1114349021,4292323
No. of new cases843614,563104774624329071

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Day Nurseries—Attendances during the year.
The Crossley Day Nursery, Barrow Hill Road 6,104
Portman Day Nursery, Exeter Street 8,651
Dental Clinic, 12, Salisbury Street.
Attendances during the year : Mothers, 1,019 ; children, 106.
Advice and treatment given in 783 cases—extractions under gas 342.
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 the health visitors, who also noted
the cases in which assistance was required. Both the women and the cases were
submitted for approval to the Medical Officer of Health. The system has worked
exceedingly well and the assistance rendered has been greatly appreciated by those
who received it. When the scheme was first adopted it was intended to engage
one or more women who had received or who would be given special training and
instruction at one of the centres, but at the time of starting it was practically
impossible to find women considered suitable. It was decided, therefore, for a
time at least to employ women experienced merely in ordinary house work, and this
arrangement proving highly satisfactory, has been continued. The chief work in