[Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Middlesbrough County Borough.

  • Middlesbrough (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1946
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Credit: [Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Middlesbrough County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The numbers of visits to newly born babies and to all under one year of age have been well maintained. It has not been possible with depleted staff to visit the 1—5 age groups to the fill] extent that is desirable, ages at which visiting is quite as desirable as for young babies, since the former are brought to the Centres so infrequently, compared with the latter and defects can arise in them undetected by their mothers. The increase in the number of expectant mothers visited, namely 385 compared with 45 recorded in 1945, is accounted for by the inclusion this year of the visits already referred to by the Superintendent Health Visitor. Infant Welfare Centres. I he Infant Welfare Centres in spite of changes in the staff have functioned regularly. 3'^ie.re„frre ten sessions per week, and at seven of these, a Medical Officer is in attendance. There is an increase in the total number of attendances and n the number of children under one year attending for the first Ome. This latter figure is not however, so large as one would like it to be, when one considers the increase in the birth rate during 1946. The number of children of the “ toddler ” or of an older age brought to the centre is disappointingly small, but it is very difficult for mothers to bring a small child as well as a a y to the Centres, particularly as there are no play-rooms at- the Centres where she may leave one child while being advised about another. One has to bear in mind, however, that a considerable number of children under the age of five are accommodated in the Nursery Classes and Day Nurseries in the Borough. The number of visits and details of the work of the Centres are as follows :— Number of attendances ot children 0—1 Number of attendances of children 1_5 . . Included in above— Number of children attending for first time 0—1 Number of children attending for first time 1—5 . . Number of children examined by Doctor Number of children advised by Health Visitors Number of Sessions 18,246 2,890 21,136 2,244 29 3,608 19,581 478
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