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 53 Midwives' Clinics
Sessions | New Cases | Total attendances | Average attendance | |
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1957 | 233 | 526 | 3,420 | 14.6 |
1956 | 267 | 549 | 2,675 | 10.0 |
Table 54
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 delivery | 208 | |
(b) When doctor was present at delivery | 42 | |
Number of cases in which pethidine was administered in domiciliary practice during the year: (a) When doctor was not present at delivery | 56 | |
(b) When doctor was present at delivery | 17 | |
Totals: | 1957 | 323 |
1956 | 347 |
Table 55 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 | |||||||
— | 20 | 73 | 274 | 12,855 | 26 | 124 | 335 | |
Totals: | 1957 | 367 | 12,855 | 26 | 124 | 335 | ||
1956 | 327 | 11,266 | 22 | 111 | 288 |
Table 56 Medical Aid
1957 | 1956 | |
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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 | 70 | 53 |
(ii) Others | 7 | 11 |
Totals | 77 | 64 |