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 Walthamstow]
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Place of Confinement During the year, Walthamstow Mothers were confined as follows:-
Forest Gate Hospital | 21 |
Mother's (Salvation Army) Hospital, Clapton | 162 |
North Middlesex Hospital, Edmonton | 12 |
Paistow Maternity Hospital | 36 |
Thorpe Coombe Maternity Hospital | 920 |
Wanstead Hospital | 43 |
Other Hospitals or Nursing Homes | 98 |
Total | 1,292 |
At Home: | |
Essex County Council Midwife present | 541 |
Domiciliary confinements out of Essex | 2 |
Total Confined | 1,838 |
Section 24 HEALTH VISITING
During the year the Health Visitors made 21,792 visits to homes:-
Cases visited for the first time in the current year | |
(a) children born in 1958 | 60 |
" " " 1959 | 924 |
" " " 1960 | 1,639 |
" " " 1961 | 1,317 |
" " " 1962 | 1,537 |
" " " 1963 | 1,541 |
" " " 1964 | 1,876 |
(b) persons aged 65 or over | 1,619 |
(c) others (excluding school nursing cases) | 1,008 |
Number included in item (2) | |
(a) mentally disordered persons | 80 |
(b) persons discharged from hospital (other than mental hospitals) | 86 |
(c) tuberculosis households | 15 |
(d) households visited on account of other infectious diseases | 25 |
Number included in item (2) and where appropriate item (3) who were visited at the special request of a G.P. or hospital | |
(a) persons aged 65 or over | 192 |
(b) mentally disordered persons | 31 |
(c) persons discharged from hospital (other than mental hospitals) | 44 |