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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Deptford 1923
Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford
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Table showing Attendances at the Ante-natal Centre and Special Clinic for Babies During 1923.
| Ante-natal Examinations. | Babies' Special Clinic. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period. | Number. | Number. | |||||
| Four weeks ended Jan. 4 | (6 sessions) | 88 | (3 sessions) | 20 | |||
| Two „ „ „ 18 | (4 „ ) | 61 | (2 „ ) | 12 | |||
| „ „ „ Feb. 1 | (4 „ ) | 46 | (2 „ ) | 16 | |||
| „ „ „ „ „ 15 | (4 „ ) | 66 | (2 „ ) | 14 | |||
| „ „ „ Mar. 1 | (4 „ ) | 63 | (2 „ ) | 15 | |||
| „ „ „ „ 15 | (4 „ ) | 51 | (2 „ ) | 12 | |||
| Four „ „ Apr. 12 | (7 „ ) | 121 | (4 „ ) | 10 | |||
| Two „ „ „ 26 | (4 „ ) | 52 | (2 „ ) | 8 | |||
| Four „ „ May 24 | (7 „ ) | 95 | (4 „ ) | 16 | |||
| Two ,, „ June 7 | (4 „ ) | 102 | (2 „ ) | 16 | |||
| „ „ „ „ 21 | (4 „ ) | 66 | (2 „ ) | 11 | |||
| „ „ „ July 5 | (3 „ ) | 42 | (2 „ ) | 6 | |||
| „ „ „ „ 19 | (4 „ ) | 65 | (2 „ ) | 8 | |||
| Six „ „ Aug. 30 | (11 „ ) | 154 | (6 „ ) | 31 | |||
| Two „ ,, Sept. 13 | (4 „ ) | 53 | (2 „ ) | 9 | |||
| „ „ „ „ 27 | (4 „ ) | 63 | (2 „ ) | 15 | |||
| „ „ „ Oct. 11 | (4 „ ) | 49 | (2 „ ) | 14 | |||
| „ „ „ „ 27 | (4 „ ) | 50 | (2 „ ) | 15 | |||
| „ „ „ Nov. 8 | (4 „ ) | 51 | (2 „ ) | 12 | |||
| „ „ „ „ 22 | (4 „ ) | 48 | (2 „ ) | 15 | |||
| „ ,, ,, Dec. 6 | (4 „ ) | 39 | (2 „ ) | 12 | |||
| Four ,, „ Jan. 3,3924 | (6 „ ) | 62 | 11 | ||||
Dr. Hill's Report on the Ante-Natal Clinic.
There has been a considerable increase in the number of attendances
at the Ante-Natal Centre during the year, and the arrangements
in this connection have shown some development. The Ante-Natal
Clinic is held at the Napier Street Mission Hall on Tuesday and
Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 12.30 or 1 p.m. Expectant mothers enter
by the hall where perambualtors, sometimes toddlers, are left, and pass
into the smaller hall where a Health Visitor writes the names in a
register, fills in particulars on their card and tests specimens of urine.
As time allows, or opportunity occurs, she gives advice to mothers as
to the care of their health, preparations for their confinement and the
making of babies' clothes, etc. The mothers then go three or four at
a time into a further room to get ready in turn to see the doctor. The
doctor keeps a record of her routine examination of each patient, in her
private register, giving advice both verbally and also by means of a