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 Edmonton]
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The following information gives details of the Maternity and Child Welfare
Clinics at the end of 1946:—
(1) Ante-Natal Clinic at Brookfield House, Fore Street (adjoining
the Town Hall). Six sessions weekly.
(2) Child Welfare Centres:—
(a) Brookfield House. Three sessions weekly.
(b) Methodist Church Hall, Bush Hill Park. Two sessions
weekly.
(c) St. Edmund's Church Hall. Two sessions weekly.
(d) Weir Hall. Two sessions weekly.
(e) St. John's. One session weekly.
(3) Post-Natal and Advisory Clinic at Brookfield House. One
session weekly.
(4) Dental Clinic at Croyland Road School Clinic and transferred
to Pymmes Park Clinic, August, 1947. Two sessions weekly.
(5) Orthopaedic Clinic at Methodist Central Hall, Fore Street. Two
sessions weekly.
(6) Obstetric Surgeon attends once a fortnight at Brookfield House.
The following information will give some indication as to the work carried
out by the Department during the year 1946 :—
Births.
The total number of births notified during 1946 was as follows:—
Live births notified by midwives | 2,699 |
,, ,, ,, ,, doctors and parents | 84 |
Still-births ,, ,, midwives | 141 |
„ „ „ doctors | 2 |
2,926 |
These figures include births which have taken place in the North Middlesex County Hospital, both of Edmonton and non-Edmonton residents ; excluding these latter the notified births of Edmonton residents are:—
Live births notified by midwives | 1,420 |
„ ,, ,, „ doctors and parents | 81 |
Still-births „ ,, midwives | 33 |
„ „ „ doctors | 2 |
1,536 | |
Number of live Edmonton babies born in outlying institutions | 431 |
Number of still-born Edmonton babies born in outlying institutions | 4 |
435 |
The following table includes births of Edmonton residents and thoseborn and registered in other districts:-
Male. | Female. | Total. | |
---|---|---|---|
Live Births | 1004 | 913 | 1,917 |
Still-births | 27 | 18 | 45 |
1031 | 931 | 1,962 |