[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham County Borough 1918].

  • West Ham (London, England). County Borough
Date:
[1919]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham County Borough 1918]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Midwives.—Sixtv-four. They attended 76 per cent, of the births in 1918, and are inspected by the Medical Officer of Health and a specially-appointed Health Visitor who is a Certified Mid¬ wife. The Plaistow Maternity Charity provide the services of Midwives and Doctors in aid of necessitous women. The Notification of Births Act came into force in 1908; 5,859 births, or 97 per cent., were notified in 1918. Health Visitors.—The Council employ ten Health Visitors who devote the whole of their time to visiting children up to 5 years of age. The Council also subsidises the Stratford Mothers' Welcome, the Health Visitor from which Centre visits infants in a special area of the parish of Trinity Mission. The Women's League of Service at their Centre in Union Boad (Broadway Ward) employ a Health Visitor, who visits infants in a special area around that Centre. The Plaistow Maternity Charity do a large amount of Health Visiting in connection with their maternity cases, and in 1918 paid 36,519 visits to infants under 12 months of age. All the infants are visited at least monthly up till 1 year, after which the children are transferred and the visits continued by the Council’s Health Visitors. The Charity also undertake ante natal visiting, and in 1918, 12,500 visits were paid to expectant mothers. Centres.—The Plaistow Maternity Charity and District Nurses Home, which exists for the purpose of training and supply¬ ing Midwives for confinements and Nurses for home treatment, have three Centres in West Ham in connection with their work, viz. (1) Chesterton House, Balaam Street, Plaistow; (2) Boyd Institute, St. Luke’s Square, Tidal Basin; (3) Martin Street, Stratford. There is an ante-natal Clinic, under medical super¬ vision, held twice weekly at (1), and once weekly at (2) and (3), and an infant consultation, also; under medical supervision, once weekly at each. Infants are weighed. Dried Milk, Virol and Drugs are supplied at (1), where there also is a Milk Depot. The
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