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HEALTH VISITING
Number of visits during the year by all Health Visitors working
in this area:—
To expectant mothers—First visits 425
Total visits 547
To children under one year of age—First visits 957
Total visits 3,851
To children between the age of one and five
years—Total visits 5,043
MIDWIFERY SERVICE
Domiciliary Midwifery was performed as in previous years by
the Midwives of Queen Charlotte's Hospital. Only 15% of the
total births were home confinements.
The bulk of the hospital confinements were accepted at Central
Middlesex and Queen Charlotte's Hospitals, the table below giving
the distribution:—
Central Middlesex Hospital 36.0%
Queen Charlotte's Hospital 26.5%
Hammersmith Hospital 9.9%
Other Hospitals 12.1%
*
Nursing Homes 0.5%
Confined at home
(Queen Charlotte's midwives attending) 15.0%