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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
Bethnal Green 1932
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]
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this clinic. Their help with the additional services of
Home Helps and Maternity Outfits, and the friendly but
efficient atmosphere they have created have been very
valuable assets.
Records are as follows:—
| First attendances | 115 | ||
| Subsequent „ | 374 | ||
| Total „ | 489 | ||
| First attendances | 86 | ||
| Subsequent ,, | 115 | ||
| Total „ | 201 | ||
| Sessions held | 52 | ||
| Average attendance per session | 13.2 | ||
| Analysis of 1932 cases:— | |||
| First attendances—Primiparse | 13 | ||
| Multiparæ | 92 | ||
| Not pregnant | 10 | 115 | |
| Periods of Gestation:— | |||
| In 1st month | 1 | ||
| „ 2nd „ | 11 | ||
| „ 3rd „ | 14 | ||
| „ 4th „ | 20 | ||
| „ 5th „ | 16 | ||
| „ 6th „ | 16 | ||
| „ 7th „ | 19 | ||
| „ 8th | 8 | ||
| „ 9th „ | Nil. | ||
| Full term confinements | 68 | ||
| Not yet confined | 33 | ||
| Removed from district | 4 | ||
| Premature birth | 3 | ||
| Miscarriage | 1 | ||
| Stillbirths | Nil. | ||
| Known confinements:— | |||
| At home | 51 | ||
| ,, institutions | 21 | ||
| — | 72 | ||