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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
Shoreditch 1945
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE STATISTICAL INFORMATION
HEALTH VISITING
| (1) | (2) 1st Visits | (3) Total | (1) | (2) 1st Visits | (3) Total | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Expectant mothers | 663 | 1,898 | Puerperal fever | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Infants | 722 | 4,428 | Puerperal pyrexia | 5 | 5 | |||||||||
| Children aged l-S | 396 | 6,317 | Child life protection | - | 59 | |||||||||
| nterviews | - | 2,081 | Stillbirth visits | 19 | 23 | |||||||||
| Futile visits | _ | 2,228 | Premature Infants | 24 | 106 | |||||||||
| Ophthalmia neonatorum, etc. | 16 | 56 | ||||||||||||
| CLINIC ATTENDANCES | ||||||||||||||
| (1) Centre | (2) No. of Sessions | Children | (7) Antenatal | (8) Miscellaneous | (9) Total | (10) H. V.'s Attendances | ||||||||
| 0—1 | 1- | -5 | ||||||||||||
| (3) Seen by Dr. | (4) Total | (5) Seen by Dr. | (6) Total | |||||||||||
| Model Welfare Centre | 549 | 1,884 | 4,170 | 1,377 | 2,373 | 2,577 | 2,878 | 12,006 | 1,129 | |||||
| Britannia Walk Centre* | 24 | 170 | 326 | 104 | 155 | — | 1 | 474 | 44 | |||||
| Total | 573 | 2,054 | 4,496 | 1,481 | 2,528 | 2,577 | 2,879 | 12,480 | 1,773 | |||||
| MISCELLANEOUS ATTENDANCES (INCLUDED ABOVE EXCEPT NURSERIES) | ||||||||||||||
| (1) | (2) First | (3) Total | (1) | (2) First | (3) Total | |||||||||
| Toddlers' clinic | 234 | 497 | Housewifery classes | - | - | |||||||||
| Postnatal clinic | 40 | 40 | Sun Babies War Nursery | 61 | 10,754 | |||||||||
| Mothers without children | 194 | Brunswick ,, ,, | 58 | 14,055 | ||||||||||
| Artificial sunlight—mothers | - | _ | ||||||||||||
| children | 100 | 2,147 | ||||||||||||
| DINING CENTRES | ||||||||||||||
| (1) | (2) 210, Kingsland Rd. | (3) 108, Shepherdess Walkf | (4) Total | |||||||||||
| Ordinary dinners served to mothers | 3,056 | 236 | 3,292 | |||||||||||
| „ ,, lying-in mothers | _ | — | — | |||||||||||
| Dinners served to toddlers | 3,816 | 221 | 4,037 | |||||||||||
| Mothers on register at end of year | 20 | 6 | 26 | |||||||||||
| Toddlers on register at end of year | 26 | 10 | 36 | |||||||||||
| MISCELLANEOUS | ||||||||||||||
| Mayfield: Admissions | 140 | Visits under otorrhoea scheme | 5 | |||||||||||
| Discharges and transfers | 132 | Minimum free milk allowances (M. & C.W.) | 21 | |||||||||||
| Admissions to other convalescent homes | 15 | Maximum free milk allowances (M. & C.W.) | 61 | |||||||||||
| Home help cases | 16 | Free milk recipients (C.M.S.):— | ||||||||||||
| Midwifery: Borough midwives' cases | 92 | End of 1st quarter | 97 | |||||||||||
| ,, Antenatal | 848 | 2nd | 143 | |||||||||||
| Maternity dressings | 1 17 | „ 3rd | 119 | |||||||||||
| Copthorne: Admissions | 39 | 4th ,, | 152 | |||||||||||
| Discharges and transfers | 34 | Social worker's visits. | 215 | |||||||||||
| ,, No. resident at end of year | 5 | |||||||||||||
| * Opened 4-10-45. † „ 1-10-45. ‡ Released by Ministry of Health as Wartime Nursery on 7-9-45. | ||||||||||||||