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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 1934

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]

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When acting in the capacity of maternity nurse
(a doctor being in attendance):
{a) In private Nursing Homes 199
(6) At the patient's home 167

Table: Notification.—The number of notifications received from midwives, in accordance with the Rules of the Central Midwives Board, was as follows :

Notification.—The number of notifications received from midwives, in accordance with the Rules of the Central Midwives Board, was as follows :

Notifications of
Sending for medical assistance:
On account of a complication of pregnancy32
On account of a complication during labour130
On account of a complication during the puerperium12
On account of the health of the child27
201
Still-birth8
Death:
Of mother1
Of child3A
Laying out of a Dead Body4 2
Artificial Feeding of Infant7
Liability of Midwife to be a source of infection6
228

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Ophthalmia Neonatorum.—Among the 27 notifications of
sending for medical assistance on account of the health of the
child were included seven on account of inflammation of, or discharge
from, the eyes. In two of these cases the medical practitioner
called in by the midwife notified the case as ophthalmia neonatorum.
Visits to Midwives.—The midwives engaged in district midwifery
are visited periodically by the Assistant Medical Officer
who acts as Inspector of Midwives. During the year 27 routine
visits of inspection were made to the 15 midwives engaged in
private practice, while special visits were made in connection with
a case of ophthalmia neonatorum and a maternal death.