London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1948
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Dagenham]
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Notices summoning medical aid 520
For (a) Mothers 422
For (b) Infants 98
Notifications that they had been associated with the undermentioned
conditions were received from midwives:—
Substitution of artificial feeding 29
Liable to be sources of infection 15
Stillbirths 6
Deaths of Mother or Child 5
Laying out dead bodies 1
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 1948:—
Municipal
Midwives
Dagenham
Nursing
Association
Midwives
Salvation
Army
Midwives
Births Attended:
As Midwife
599
480
158
As Maternity Nurse
72
61
11
Miscarriages Attended
17
5
4
Visits Paid:
As Midwife
12,099
8,939
4,861
As Maternity Nurse
691
1,168
199
Ante-Natal
4,270
3,289
596
Ante-Natal Clinics Attended
650
224
98
Gas and Air Administered
232
191
115