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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
Ealing 1919
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]
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Maternity and Child Welfare.
59
The persons notifying were as follows:
Midwife Doctor & Parent &
Doctor or Nurse. Midwife. Parent. Doctor.
721 416 1 24 3
The health visitors made the usual visits of instruction
in the case of 739 of the 1167 living births notified and
visits of investigation in the case of 26 of the 39 stillbirths.
They also visited 873 children under 5 years
of age.
The following table gives the total number of visits
made to children under one year and to those between
one and five years of age :
Total Visits of Health Visitors.
| Number of first visits | 739 | 873 |
| Number of second visits | 302 | 472 |
| Number of third visits | 99 | 207 |
| Number of fourth visits | 29 | 59 |
| Number of fifth visits | 8 | 36 |
| Number of sixth visits | — | 20 |
| Number of seventh visits | — | 8 |
| Number of eighth visits | — | 2 |
| Total Visits | 1277 | 1677 |
The health visitors also investigated 57 of the 67
infant deaths registered during the year.
2. Consultations for Children at the Welfare Centre.—
Since the opening of the new Welfare Centre at 13,
Mattock Lane, in January, 1919, the child consultations
under Dr. Grace Banham, have proved very successful.
The following table indicates the extent to which the
consultations have been taken advantage of: