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Maternity and Child Welfare.
Visits paid by Health Visitors during the year 1024:—
To Expectant Mothers: First Visits, 1,048; Total Visits. 2,067
To Infants Under I year: First Visits. 4,229; Total Visits, 19,332
To Children 1—5 years: Total Visits, 31,462.
Number of Midwives practising in District: Trained 93;
Untrained 1. (Bona fide, 1904.)
The Public Health Authority does not emply or subsidize
practising midwives.
Maternity Homes Subsidized by Council: —
Number of Beds:
Queen Mary's Hospital 10
Plaistow Maternity Charity 10
Number of Cases received during the year:
Queer. Mary's Hospital 444
Plaistow Maternity Charity 453
Number of Weeks spent in Hospital by such Cases:
Queen Mary's Hospital 8154/7
Plaistow Maternity Charity 993
Hospitals for Children under 5 years (subsidized by
Council:—
St. Mary's Hospital—Number of Beds 10
I.C.C.S. Hosp. (late Settlement Hosp.)—Number of Beds 10
Number of Children admitted to St. Mary's Hospital 429
Number of Children admitted to I.C.C.S. Hospital 79
Number of Weeks spent by Children in St. Mary's Hosp. 9575/7
Number of Weeks spent in I.C.C.S. Hospital 5602/7Number of Children under 5 years in Homes and Hospitals
outside Borough 28
Number of Weeks spent in such Homes 243
Day Nursery (subsidized by Council) No ½ days.
Whole days, 6,292. Daily average 26