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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

Bexley 1965

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bexley]

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Table: The following tables show the various activities of the Health Visitors during the past five years

The following tables show the various activities of the Health Visitors during the past five years

19651966196719681969
Child Welfare Sessions
Held by Assistant Medical Officers3405168419111056
Held by sessional doctors95713311057963833
Held by Health Visitors8911199144129
Total number of children under 5 attending392610770133911310513842
Total seen by Doctor955013207267532683824090
Total number of attendances5431475629759567392272617
Health Visitors and ClinicNurses attended the following sessions :
Periodical School Medical Inspection4403344619761021
School Hygiene Inspections189188107148140
B.C.G. sessions32121639053
M. & C.W. Clinic sessions42724976429249565071
Cases visited by Health Visitors
Total number of visits to children50377772163441441113903
under 5
Persons aged 65 or over7497206183182
Mentally disordered persons3927142425
Persons, excluding maternity cases, discharged from hospital (other
than mental hospitals)108111712
Number of tuberculous households visited137541412526
Number of households visited on account of other infectious diseases14311609768211072
Number of tuberculous households visited by tuberculosis health visitors237241239707703

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GENERAL MIDWIFERY PROVISION
A comprehensive domiciliary midwifery service is available in the Borough, the Council employing
a Supervisor, Deputy Supervisor and 15 Midwives in 1969.
In addition, there are three general practitioner maternity units at the Maternity Hospitals and
an obstetric unit at Queen Mary's Hospital, with 56 beds. This unit opened in 1966 and in 1969
had a staff of 76 midwives.
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