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Hendon 1944

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]

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8.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
These services arc operated for the care of children under five years
of age, and for expectant and nursing mothers. The following Table, which
shows the number of attendances at Ante-Natal and Child Welfare sessions as
compared with the years 1942 and 1943, reflects the continued interest in, and
advantage taken of these services by the mothers. The slight decrease which
can be seen in the total number of attendances at the Child Welfare sessions
coincided with the evacuation of aothers and children to safer areas, consequent
upon increased enemy activity.

Table: Nunber attending the Maternity & Child Welfare Sessions at the Health Centres.TABLE VII.

Nunber attending the Maternity & Child Welfare Sessions at the Health Centres.

TABLE VII.

194219431944
No. of Child Welfare Sessions9259341016
Total No. of attendances499605496249334
No. of new members admitted231622982252
No. of Ante-Natal Sessions431503517
No. of cases who attended for the first time161915971498
No. of attendances746487218944

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MIDWIFERY.
The provisions made by the Council for domiciliary midwifery remained
unchanged. The following Table gives particulars of these services;-

Table: TABLE VIII.DOMICILIARY CONFINEMENTS ATTENDED BY MIDWIVES.

TABLE VIII.

DOMICILIARY CONFINEMENTS ATTENDED BY MIDWIVES.

194219431944
(a) Employed by Council; as Midwives348336281
as Maternity Nurses100118113
(b) Employed by Voluntary Associations; under arrangements made with the Local Supervising Authority in pursuance of Section 1 of the Midwives Act, 1936
as Midwives160156152
as Maternity Nurses9178
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