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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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Though decay is very prevalent, attendance at the welfare clinics
certainly prevents the worst ravages. There is a group of non-attenders
whose parents ultimately bring them on account of the incessant crying
caused by toothache. In these children the disease is always widespread,
many have dental abscesses, and very extensive extractions are required.
Records are being kept of the children to whom cod liver oil is
regularly administered from early infancy in the hope that evidence of
its ability to check caries may be traceable.
H. C. HIGHTON, L.D.S.
L. LYON, L.D.S.
G. LEATHERMAN, L.D.S.
Ante-Natal Clinic. 1,112 live births and 39 stillbirths were notified by the Medical Officer of Health as having occurred in the area allotted to the Royal College of St. Katharine during the year 1934. The following table shows the distribution of these births
| Live Births. | Stillbirths | |
|---|---|---|
| Doctors' patients | 182 | 8 |
| Midwives' patients | 322 | 6 |
| St. Andrew's Hospital | 319 | 15 |
| East End Maternity Hospital | 217 | 9 |
| Other Institutions | 72 | 1 |
| 1,112 | 39 | |
| Of this number the following attended our Ante-Natal Clinic:— | ||
| Doctor's patients | 11 | |
| Midwives' patients | 172* | |
| St. Andrew's Hospital | 269 | |
| Other Institutions | 30 | |
| Not stated | 25 | |
| Removed from district | 15 | |
| Not pregnant | 16 | |
| 538 | ||
* 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.