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 54
Midwives' Clinics
Sessions | New Cases | Total attendances | Average attendance | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1958 | 309 | 732 | 4,877 | 15.8 |
1957 | 233 | 526 | 3,420 | 14.6 |
Table 55
Midwives—Administration of gas and air analgesia
Domiciliary midwives employed by local health authority | ||
---|---|---|
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 | 299 | |
(b) When doctor was present at delivery | 52 | |
Number of cases in which pethidine was administered in domiciliary practice during the year: | ||
(a) When doctor was not present at delivery | 93 | |
(b) When doctor was present at delivery | 24 | |
Totals: | 1958 | 468 |
1957 | 323 |
Table 56
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 | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 | |||||||
— | 17 | 102 | 305 | 15,110 | 25 | 151 | 397 | |
Totals: | 1958 | 424 | 15,110 | 25 | 151 | 397 | ||
1957 | 367 | 12,855 | 26 | 124 | 335 |
Table 57
Medical Aid
1958 | 1957 | |
---|---|---|
(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 | 67 | 70 |
(ii) Others | 8 | 7 |
Totals | 75 | 77 |