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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 1955

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Dagenham]

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Notices summoning medical aid 225
For (a) Mothers 169
For (b) Infants 56
Notifications that they had been associated with the undermentioned
conditions were received from domiciliary midwives:—
Substitution of artificial feeding 37
Liable to be sources of infection
Stillbirths 3
Deaths of Mother or Child 3
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 19.55 :—

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 19.55 :—

County MidwivesMidwives Residing at York House Training HomeSalvation Army Midwives
Births Attended:
As Midwife17221847
As Maternity Nurse121246
Miscarriages Attended (included in above)2157
Visits Paid:
As Midwife4,8406,3631,424
As Maternity Nurse2,173184143
Ante-Natal2,5921,563346
Ante-Natal Clinics Attended51022035
Gas and Air Administered: As Midwife ...9012936
As Maternity Nurse71116