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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 1953

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Dagenham]

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31
Notices summoning medical aid 392
For (a) Mothers 291
For (b) Infants 101
Notifications that they had been associated with the undermentioned
conditions were received from domiciliary midwives:—
Substitution of artificial feeding 40
Liable to be sources of infection 4
Stillbirths 7
Laying out dead body 1

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 1953:—

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 1953:—

County MidwivesMidwives Residing at York House Training HomeSalvation Army Midwives
Births Attended:
As Midwife26228059
As Maternity Nurse8971
Miscarriages Attended (included in above)7252
Visits Paid:
As Midwife6,1857,4001,675
As Maternity Nurse1,05038432
Ante-Natal3,0791,026329
Ante-Natal Clinics Attended63031051
Gas and Air Administered:
As MidwifeI5020955
As Maternity Nurse5971