[Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Royal Tunbridge Wells Borough.

  • Tunbridge Wells (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1941
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Credit: [Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Royal Tunbridge Wells Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE SERVICES. The Infant Welfare Centre at 11, Crescent Road, was transferred on the 22nd March, 1941, to the First Floor of Nos. 9 and 10, Calverley Terrace, Tunbridge Wells, which had been vacated by the removal of the Public Health Offices to the New Town Hall. The Branch Centre, held in the Congregational Church, Rusthall High Street, continued in use throughout the year. The total number of attendances at the Centres during 1941 was 11,836, and medical consultations numbered 3,725 as compared with 3,723 in 1940. Attendances at Tunbridge Wells & Consultations with Rusthall Centres? _ Medical Staff; Infants under one year. 3,182 1,823 Children 1-5 years....... 3,163 1,902 Mothers (excluding those attending Ante-Natal & Post-Natal Clinic).....,. 5,491 TOTALS.«... 11,836 . 3,725 There was a considerable increase at Dr. Morison’s Ante-Natal and Post-Natal Clinics- Individual Expectant Mothers. Consultations ................ Primipsi Multips t Totali 84 131 215. 363 596 959 . In addition to the above, 21 attendances for post-natal examinations were made by 15 mothers. Dental Treatment. 116 children made 141 attendances, and 132 mothers made 177 attendances to receive the following dental treatments- Teeth extracted - Permanent 182, Temporary 199. Teeth filled n 98, ' u 80. Other operations- Administrations » 36, « 9. of General Anaesthetics 60. Grants totalling £11.10.0d., towards the cost of dentures for expectant and nursing mothers were made in five cases during the year. He aIth Visiting. The following home visits were paid by the Nursing Staff during the year:- (a) To expectant mothers. (b) To Infants under 1 year of age (c) To Children between the ages of 1 and 5 yrs. (d) Where Infants have died . . . ... (e) Found no one at home . First Total Visits Visits 228 521. First Total Visits Visits 354 1511. Total Visits 2951. Total Visits 13. 657.