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Health Visiting.
Number of visits paid during the year by all Health Visitors
working in the area:
(a) To expectant mothers First visits 441
Total visits 1273
(b) To children under one year First visits 976
Total visits 4529
(c) To children between 1 and 5 Total visits 4034
Infant Welfare Centres.
Total number of children who first attended the Centres during
the year and who op the date of their first attendance were:
(a) Under one year of age 870
(b) Between the ages of 1 and a years 56
Total number of children under 5 years of age who attended
at the Centres during the year and who, at: the end of the year
were :
(a) Under one year of age 717
(b) Over one year 1136
Total number of attendances at Centres during the year:
(a) By children under one year of age 10822
(b) By children between 1 and 5 3645
Midwifery Service.
Domiciliary midwifery was performed as in previous years by
Queen. Charlottes midwives.
During 1944, 404 expectant mothers made application for
admission to Central Middlesex County Hospital, but of these only
320 were admitted, the remaining 84 were either evacuated or made
their own alternative arrangements.
Three weekly sessions were held at the Ante-Natal clinic in
Avenue Road, and a representative from the Food Office attended
these Clinics for the sale of fruit juices and cod liver oil.
New cases attending Clinics during the
year 793
Of these, 5 were found not to be pregnant.
Total attendances 3386
Average weekly attendances 65 (3 clinics)