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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

Acton 1951

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]

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Table: HEALTH VISITINGNumber of visits made during the year by all Health Visitors working in this area:

HEALTH VISITING

Number of visits made during the year by all Health Visitors working in this area:

To expectant mothers—First visits438
Total visits671
To children under one year of age—First visits958
Total visits3,616
To children between the ages of one and
five years—Total visits4,878

Table: INFANT WELFARE CLINICSTotal number of children who first attended the Clinics during the vear, and who, on the date of their first attendance were:

INFANT WELFARE CLINICS

Total number of children who first attended the Clinics during the vear, and who, on the date of their first attendance were:

Under one year year of age884
Between the ages of one and five79
Total number of children in attendance at the end of the year:
Under one year of age709
Over one year2,374
Total number of attendances at Centres during the year:
By children under one year of age12,345
By children between one and five years5,791

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MIDWIFERY SERVICE
Domiciliary Midwifery was performed as in previous years by;
the Midwives of Queen Charlotte's Hospital.
During 1951, 303 women were recommended for admission to
Central Middlesex County Hospital for their confinements and most
of these were accepted.
ANTE-NATAL CLINICS
During the first nine months of the year, three sessions a week
were held at Avenue Road and a fourth at Palmerston Road clinic,
but in October one of the Avenue Road sessions was temporarily
discontinued.