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INSTITUTIONAL MIDWIVES
The numbers of mldwives employed by East Ham Memorial Hospital, and qualified at 31st December
to administer gas and air analgesia were as follows
1958-Seven
1959-Nil (Maternity Ward closed temporarily on 1.4.59)
Number of cases in which medical aid was summoned by a midwife under section 14(1) of the
Midwives Act, 1951:-
1958 1959
(a) for domiciliary cases-
(1) where the medical practitioner had arranged
to provide the patient with maternity
medical services under the N.H.S. Act 27 10
(ii) others 41 41
Total 68 51
(b) for cases in East Ham Memorial Hospital 156 27
Number of cases delivered in institutions but attended by
domiciliary mldwives on discharge from institutions and
before the fourteenth day 62 24
Breast Feeding
Number of domiciliary cases in which the infant was wholly
breast fed at the fourteenth day 203 170
SECTION 24-HEALTH VISITING SERVICE
All Health Visiting Services are provided by the Authority. There are no agency arrangements
with voluntary organisations.
The total visits made in 1958 and 1959 were 28,082 and 30,414 respectively.
TABLE 25
HEALTH VISITORS - STATISTICS
Year
Number of children under
5 years of age visited
during year
Expectant
Mothers
Children
under 1
year of
age
Children age 1
and under
2 years
Children age 2
but under
5 years
Other
Cases
Total number of families
or households visited
by Health Visitors
Number of attendances by
Health Visitors at Clinic
Sessions
First
Visits
Total
Visits
First
Visits
Total
Visits
Total
Visits
Total
Visits
Total
Visits
Effective
Visits
1958
5,232
1,263
1,813
1,467
6,970
4,083
5,226
3,729
16,161
2,387
1959
5,510
1,199
1,942
1,578
6,093
4,307
6,620
4,977
18,637
2,723
No Access
Visits
1958
560
1,389
1,325
1,668
1,319
1959
544
1,623
1,082
1,893
1,353
A "No Access" or ineffective visit is one in which the Health Visitor did not make contact with
the individual to be visited or a responsible representative of that individual.