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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
Dagenham 1947
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Dagenham]
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Notices summoning medical aid 610
For (a) Mothers 516
For (b) Infants 94
Notifications that they had been associated with the undermentioned
conditions were received from midwives :—
Liable to be sources of infection 15
Stillbirths 15
Substitution of artificia feeding 12
Laying out dead bodies 8
Infant Deaths 7
Domiciliary Midwifery Service.
Below is a table setting forth in statistical form the work of
the Corporation Midwives, Dagenham Nursing Association and
Salvation Army Midwives for the year 1947 :—
Municipal
Midwives.
Dagenham
Nursing
Association
Midwives.
Salvation
Army
Midwives.
Births Attended :
As Midwife
772
610
179
As Maternity Nurse
144
107
23
Miscarriages Attended
13
9
9
Visits Paid :
As Midwife
I5,307
11,035
4,677
As Maternity Nurse
1,649
1,914
460
Ante-Natal
3,919
2,160
1,128
Ante-Natal Clinics Attended
551
197
91
Gas and Air Administered
168
301
102