Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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MIDWIFERY SERVICE
Table 58 Midwives Clinics
Sessions | New Cases | Total attendances | Average attendance | |
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1956 | 267 | 549 | 2,675 | 10.0 |
1955 | 309 | 513 | 3,420 | 11.1 |
Table 59
Midwives—Administration of gas and air analgesia
Domiciliary midwives employed by local health authority | ||
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Number of cases in which gas and air was administered by midwives in domiciliary practice during the year: | ||
(a) When doctor was not present at deliverv | 216 | |
(b) When doctor was present at delivery | 48 | |
Number of cases in which pethidine was administered in domiciliary practice during the year: | ||
(a) When doctor was not present at delivery | 65 | |
(b) When doctor was present at delivery | 18 | |
Totals: | 1956 | 347 |
1955 | 396 |
Table 60 Domiciliary Births
Attended by midwives | Visits | Visits made to mothers discharged from hospitals before 14th day | Domiciliary cases where infant wholly breast fed at 14th day | |||||
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Dr. not booked | Dr. booked | |||||||
Dr. present at delivery | Dr. not present at delivery | Dr. present at delivery | Dr. not present at delivery | |||||
Mothers | Visits | |||||||
1 | 113 | 55 | 228 | 11,266 | 22 | 111 | 288 | |
Totals: | 1956 | 327 | 11,266 | 22 | 111 | 288 | ||
1955 | 326 | 11,908 | 47 | 207 | 295 |
Table 61 Medical Aid
1956 | 1955 | |
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(a) Domiciliary cases in which medical aid was summoned:— | ||
(i) Where the medical practitioner had arranged to provide the patient with maternity medical services under the national health service | 53 | 65 |
(ii) Others | 11 | 19 |
Totals | 64 | 84 |