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Place of Confinement
During the year Walthamstow Mothers were confined as follows
Forest Gate Hospital 30
Hackney Hospital 7
Mother's (Salvation Army) Hospital, Clapton 190
North Middlesex Hospital Edmonton 23
Queen Mary s Hospital E. 15 12
Thorpe Coombe Maternity Hospital 798
Wanstead Hospital 47
Other Hospitals or Nursing Homes 68
Total 1,175
At Home:
Council Midwife present 471
Family doctor but not Council Midwife present 4
Total Confined 1,650
Section 24 HEALTH VISITING
During the year the Health Visitors made 17,511 visits to
homes.
To expectant mothers:-
First visits 595
Subsequent visits 121
To children under 1 year of age:-
First visits 1,504
Subsequent visits 3,179
To children between the ages of 1 and
2 years -
First visits 209
Subsequent visits 2,176
To children between the ages of 2 and
5 years 4;376
Other visits:-
To the aged 1,776
Tuber colous households 1
After stillbirths 16
Special visits 1,235
Unsuccessful visits 2,323
Number of attendances by Health Visitors
at Local Health Authority clinic
sessions 688
Number of Health Education talks given in
Schools 224