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Bethnal Green 1922

Report on the health of the Borough of Bethnal Green during the year 1922

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dressing rooms, a treatment room, a dispensary, a
large waiting and lecture hall, a health visitor's office
and a staff room, as well as ample storeroom accommodation
in the basement. The premises have been
well adapted and equipped and the decoration of the
building has been designed with a view to enhancing
its attractiveness and educational value as a welfare
Centre. The increased accommodation enables a fair
range of activities to be carried on there, and the
popularity of the Centre already appears likely to
tax its capacity. Infant consultations are held on
three afternoons a week, three doctors usually being
in attendance each afternoon. Maternity consultations
are held on two mornings a week. The Centre
is also used as an office for the receipt of applications
and making of enquiries respecting milk grants in
necessitous cases on two mornings per week.

MATERNITY CLINIC.

New ante-natal cases253
Subsequent attendances279
532
New post-natal cases97
Subsequent attendances86
183
Total attendances715

There were 101 sessions, the average attendance
being 7.

The ante-natal cases, 253 in number, may be analysed as follows:—

Number of primigravidse51
Full-term confinements, including 6 stillbirths144
Premature births (1 stillborn)4
Miscarriages5
Not yet confined (March 12th, 1923)45
Found not to be pregnant24