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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
Erith 1941
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Erith]
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they are working. Accordingly a weekly pre-natal evening
session has been established at the Hainault Maternity Home,
and reporting after a full years work at this centre it can
certainly be described as a very useful clinic and to have fully
justified itself.
It serves the whole borough, and all the Welfare Centres
can therefore send their expectant mothers to attend while they
are working and unable to come to the ordinary day-time
sessions.
It is run by a Medical Officer and the staff of the Borough
Maternity Home, and a further advantage is that appointments
can be made when necessary (and it is sometimes very
necessary) to see the patients' husbands.
Later in the year a third ante-natal clinic was opened in the Picardy area, and the attendances here are most promising.
| Ante-natal patienta seen by Doctor | 1941 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. | Feb. | Mr. | Apr. | Mar | June | July | Aug | Sep. | Oct. | Nov | Dec. | Total | ||
| Erith | 81 | 59 | 46 | 74 | 76 | 58 | 80 | 68 | 98 | 98 | 63 | 44 | 845 | 1784 |
| Bedonwell | 37 | 82 | 72 | 75 | 84 | 66 | 64 | 98 | 92 | 88 | 68 | 59 | 880 | |
| Picardy | Clinic opened 17th November | 28 | 31 | 59 | 59 | |||||||||
B(5)c. Abnormal Cases.
Accommodation for abnormal maternity cases, in need of
hospital treatment is provided by an arrangement between this
Council and London Hospitals. Twenty cases were admitted
under this arrangement during the year.
The conditions for which they were admitted were as follows:
| Condition | No. |
|---|---|
| Disproportion | 12 |
| Toxaemia | 1 |
| Epilepsy | 1 |
| Eclampsia | 3 |
| Pre-eclampsia | 2 |
| Abnormal Presentation | 1 |
| Total | 20 |