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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

Poplar 1934

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]

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Ante-Natal Clinic, Public Health Department.

Table: The following table shows the distribution of these births:—

The following table shows the distribution of these births:—

Live Births.Stillbirths.
Doctors' patients794
Midwives' patients42010
St. Andrew's Hospital32012
East End Maternity Hospital2175
Other Institutions14311
Per Registrar's Returns (information not ascertainable)—2
1,17944

Table: Of this number the following attended our Ante-Natal Clinics:—

Of this number the following attended our Ante-Natal Clinics:—

Doctors' patients4
Midwives' patients202*
St. Andrew's Hospital292
East End Maternity Hospital34
Other Institutions32
Removed from District6
Not pregnant14
584

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* This number refers to the cases in the practices of private midwives. The
patients of midwives attached to nursing associations attend the associations' antenatal
clinics.

Table: Clinic Attendances.

Clinic Attendances.

Number of individual patients632
New Cases550
Total attendances2,336
Average attendance per session15.7(compared with 28 at R. Coll. double sessions)

Table: Home Visitation by Health Visitors.

Home Visitation by Health Visitors.

First visits795
Revisits1,499