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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 1952

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]

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Table: HEALTH VISITING

HEALTH VISITING

Number of visits during the year by all Health Visitors working in this area :—
To expectant mothers—First visits294
Total visits422
To children under one year of age—First visits899
Total visits3,438
To children between the age of one and five years Total visits4,279

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

INFANT WELFARE CLINICS

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

Under one year of age842
Between the ages of one and five84
Total number of children in attendance at the end of the year:
Under one year of age835
Over one year2,008
Total number of attendances at Centres during the year:
By children under one year of age13,765
By children between one and five years ________6,168

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MIDWIFERY SERVICE
Domiciliary Midwifery was performed as in previous years by
the Midwives of Queen Charlotte's Hospital.
During 1952, 272 women were recommended for admission to
Central Middlesex County Hospital for their confinements and most
of these were accepted.
ANTE-NATAL CLINICS
In last year's report it was stated that one Ante-Natal session
at Avenue Road had been temporarily discontinued, but it was
found possible to re-start this clinic at Cloister Road and Trinity
Way on alternate Friday mornings. By the end of October we were
seeing such large numbers at Cloister Road that a weekly clinic
was a necessity, so it was arranged that Friday mornings should
be given over completely to Cloister Road, and the dwindling clinic