View report page

13
Health Visiting
Number of visits paid during the year by all Health Visitors
working in this area:
To expectant mothers
First visits
368
Total visits
513
To children under one year of age
First visits
932
Total visits
3208
To children between the ages of one and five years
Total visits
3786
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 910
Between the ages of one and five 73
Total number of children in attendance at the end of the year
and who, at the end of the year were:
Under one year of age 680
Over one year 2207
Total number of attendances at Centres during the year:
By children under one year of age 13249
By children between one and five years 6575
Midwifery Service
Domiciliary Midwifery was performed as in previous years by
the Midwives of Queen Charlotte's Hospital.
During 1950, 314 women were recommended for admission to
Central Middlesex County Hospital for their confinements and most
of these were accepted,