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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 1926
[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 52 weeks ending 31 st december, 1926.
| CENTRE. | No. 24 Hill Road. | No 14 Salisbury Street. | Queen Charlotte's Hospl. | Cosway Street. | No. 30 Mary-lebone Lane. | No. 8 Ogle Mews. | The Middlesex Ilospl- | The Westn. Genl. Dispy. | The Church Army Dispy. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of consultations held . | 72 | 253 (203 children 50 maternity) | 357 (306 antenatal 61 infants) | 97 | 90 | 47 | 155 | 89 | 51 |
| No. of attendances of mothers at ante-natal clinic . | 142 | - | 32 | - | - | - | 134 | 532 | 10,557 |
| No. of attendances of babies . | 1,706 | 4,144 | 1,825 | 1,999 | 1,216 | 844 | 2,666 | 494 | 1,022 |
| No. of attendances of children over 2 years | 172 | 1,319 | 376 | 539 | 135 | 309 | 1,662 | 1,232 | 328 |
| No. of orders issued for milk, etc. | 48 | 412 | 76 | 167 | 63 | 45 | 71 | - | 2 |
| No. of home visits . | 1,323 | 3,370 | 641 | 995 | 563 | 670 | 1,789 | — | 535 |
| No. of new cases | 137 | 337 | 4,317 | 99 | 67 | 49 | 253 | 269 | 111 |
Day Nurseries—Attendances during the year.
The Crossley Day Nursery, Barrow Hill Road 6,012
The Portman Day Nursery, Exeter Street 8,308
Dental Clinic, 12 Salisbury Street.
Attendances during the year: Mothers, 1,095; children, 108.
Advice and treatment given in 871 cases—extractions under gas, 332.
Home Helps.— Arrangements for providing assistance in carrying out the
work of the home to expectant, nursing or ailing mothers continued 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 1926 was 3, and the
total amount expended during the financial year to 31st March, 1927, was £2 7s.