Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]
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1918
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TABLE 15.
ANTE-NATAL CLINIC.
Number of times the Clinic was held | 27 |
Number of expectant mothers who attended | 33 |
Number of attendances made by expectant mothers | 65 |
Numberof cases admitted to Acton Hospital | 7 |
Ante-natal Visits. | |
Number of mothers visited | 145 |
Number of visits paid to mothers | 441 |
TABLE 16.
INQUESTS. | ||||
Held in the District | 48 | |||
Cause of Death. | ||||
Suicide | 9 | Heart Disease | 9 | |
Injury at Birth | 3 | Influenza | i | |
Accidentally killed by a motor vehicle | 3 | Pneumonia | 4 | |
Overloaded stomach | 2 | |||
Accidentally killed by an aeroplane propeller | 1 | Phthisis | 2 | |
Ptomaine poisoning | 2 | |||
Scalds | 1 | Convulsions | 1 | |
Burns | 1 | Status Lymphaticus | I | |
Fracture of Skull | 1 | Ruptured Aortic Aneurism | 1 | |
Fall from Window | 1 | Diarrhoea | 1 | |
Wilful Murder | 1 | |||
Deaths outside the District | 14. | |||
Fractured Skull | 3 | |||
Suicide | 2 | |||
Burns | 2 | |||
Found drowned | 2 | |||
Run over by a train | 2 | |||
Pneumonia | 1 | |||
Heart Disease | 1 | |||
Phthisis | 1 |
TABLE 17.
BACTERIOLOGICAL LABORATORY. | |
251 Swabs from the throats and nose were examined :— 58 were positive and 103 were negative. | |
The specimens were from : — | |
Doctors private patients | 73 |
Hospital patients | 156 |
School contacts | 14 |
School sore throats | 5 |
Convalescent cases prior 10 school attendance | 3 |