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Dagenham 1951

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Dagenham]

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Notices summoning medical aid. 371
For (a) Mothers 296
For (b) Infants 75
Notifications that they had been associated with the undermentioned
conditions were received from domiciliary midwives:-
Substitution of artificial feeding 13
Liable to be sources of infection 10
Stillbirths 3
Deaths of Mother or Child 2
Laying out dead bodies 1

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 1951:-

County MidwivesMidwives Residing at York House Training HomeSalvation Army Midwives
Births Attended:
As Midwife31122962
As Maternity Nurse3346
Miscarriages Attended (included in above)5117
Visits Paid:
As Midwife7,1295,9131,941
As Maternity Nurse51778135
Ante-Natal3,5272,342508
Ante-Natal Clinics Attended8771595
Gas and Air Administered:
As Midwife15217352
As Maternity Nurse1614