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Health Visiting.
Number of visits paid during the year by all Health
Visitors working in this area:
To expectant mothers
First visits 260
Total visits 452
To children under one year of First visits 1080
age Total visits 3652
To children between the ages of
one and five years
Total visits 4014
Infant Welfare Centres.
Total number of children who first attended the Centres
during the year, and who, on the date of their first attendance
were:
Under one year of age 1048
Between the ages of one and five 92
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:
Under one year of age 938
Over one year 2147
Total number of attendances at Centres during the year:
By children under one year of age 18326
By children between one and five years 6724
A total of 1,108 Toddlers attended the Welfare Centres
during 1948 for a yearly examination.
Midwifery Service.
Domiciliary Midwifery was performed as in previous
years by the Midwives of Queen Charlotte's Hospital.
During 1948, 408 women were recommended for admission
to Central Middlesex County Hospital for their confinements
and the bulk of these were accepted.
Four Ante-Natal clinics were held weekly at Avenue
Road, and a fifth session was held at the new Palmerston
Road clinic.