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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 1950

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Dagenham]

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29
Notices summoning medical aid 470
For (a) Mothers 395
For (b) Infants 75
Notifications that they had been associated with the undermentioned
conditions were received from domiciliary midwives:-
Substitution of artificial feeding 21
Liable to be sources of infection 7
Stillbirths 7
Deaths of Mother or Child Nil
Laying out dead bodies Nil

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 1950:-

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 1950:-

County MidwivesMidwives Residing at York House Training HomeSalvation Army Midwives
Births Attended :
As Midwife43327771
As Maternity Nurse602113
Miscarriages Attended (included in above)11159
Visits Paid :
As Midwife8,7536,1982,181
As Maternity Nurse810378282
Ante-Natal4,2482,193415
Ante-Natal Clinics Attended79927793
Gas and Air Administered :
As Midwife25019753
As Maternity Nurse3466