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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 1949

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Dagenham]

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Notices summoning medical aid 568
For (a) Mothers 479
For (b) Infants 89
Notifications that they had been associated with the undermentioned
conditions were received from midwives:—
Substitution of artificial feeding 19
Liable to be sources of infection 8
Stillbirths 3
Deaths of Mother or Child 1
Laying out dead bodies -
Domiciliary Midwifery Service

Table: Below is a table setting forth in statistical form the work of the County Midwives, Midwives residing at York House Training Home and Salvation Army Midwives for the year 1949:—

Below is a table setting forth in statistical form the work of the County Midwives, Midwives residing at York House Training Home and Salvation Army Midwives for the year 1949:—

County MidwivesMidwives Residing at York House Training HomeSalvation Army Midwives
Births Attended:
As Midwife53538980
As Maternity Nurse59366
Miscarriages Attended (included in above)141112
Visits Paid:
As Midwife10,4297,3882,888
As Maternity Nurse1,229684147
Ante-Natal4,2103,118531
Ante-Natal Clinics Attended767238100
Gas and Air Administered31016265