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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 1954

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Dagenham]

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36
Notices summoning medical aid 312
For (a) Mothers 244
For (b) Infants 68
Notifications that they had been associated with the undermentioned
conditions were received from domiciliary midwives:—
Substitution of artificial feeding 25
Liable to be sources of infection 11
Stillbirths 4
Laying out dead body 4

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 1954:—

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 1954:—

County MidwivesMidwives Residing at York House Training HomeSalvation Army Midwives
Births Attended:
As Midwife18626240
As Maternity Nurse1291019
Miscarriages Attended (included in above)51011
Visits Paid:
As Midwife5,4267,587972
As Maternity Nurse1,336180396
Ante-Natal2,8381,936380
Ante-Natal Clinics Attended61223546
Gas and Air Administered:
As Midwife11618934
As Maternity Nurse84614