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 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]
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| Telangiectasis of forehead and nose | 1 |
| Meningo-myelocoele lower lumbar region | 1 |
| Syndactyly and Polydactyly toes and Polydactyly left hand | 1 |
| Pedunculated fibromyoma attached to proximal phalanx fourth finger of left hand | 1 |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | 2 |
| Total | 30 |
| Weaned on account of mothers' breast conditions | 9 |
| Weaned on account of mothers' poor general condition | 5 |
Infants transferred to other Hospitals
1. Infant transferred to West Middlesex Hospital, Isleworth,
suffering from debility following bronchopneumonia (premature
infant). Mother discharged home.
2. Infant and Mother transferred to Infants' Hospital, Vincent
Square. Infant with pyloric spasm.
3. Infant transferred to Infants' Hospital, Vincent Square, with
pyloric stenosis. Mother discharged home.
4. Infant transferred to Infants' Hospital, Vincent Square,
with haemolytic anaemia. Mother discharged home.
Consulting Obstetrician.—Dr. J. W. Rait Bell was called
to the hospital on forty-one occasions during the period under
review.
Training of Pupels.- Up to 31st March, 1939, 36 pupils
completed their course of training and entered for the examination
of the Central Midwives Board. Of these pupils, all except one were
successful.