London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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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64 Maternity and Child Welfare.
house for the purpose in December, but when the Council
expressed their view that the four women members of
the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee should be
members of the voluntary committee to manage the
Hostel the voluntary committee declined to proceed
with the matter. Ultimately a voluntary committee
with the four women members of the Maternity and
Child Welfare Committee as a nucleus was formed to
conduct the Hostel, which it is hoped will meet the needs
of the district as far as the unmarried mothers and
their babies are concerned.
It seems desirable that all the visits of health visitors should be summarized so as to give an idea of the extent of their outdoor work:
| Visits to infants and children under 5 years of age | 2,954 |
| Visits to expectant mothers | 194 |
| Special visits to children or mothers attending the Welfare Centre | 165 |
| Visits to investigate infant deaths and still-births | 83 |
| Special visits or investigations | 330 |
| Visits to carry out treatment | 46 |
| Visits to cases of ophthalmia neonatorum | 10 |
| Visits to cases of puerperal fever | 3 |
| Visits to cases of measles | 81 |
| Visits to cases of influenza (nursing) | 21 |
| Visits to cases of tuberculosis | 109 |
| Visits to cases of scarlet fever discharged from the Isolation Hospital | 230 |
| Interviews, etc. | 320 |
| Total | 1,546 |