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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
Ilford 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ilford]
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MATERNITY HOME.
During 1935, 450 women were admitted into the Home, as compared with:-
| 1934 | 474 | 1926 | 383 |
| 1933 | 474 | 1925 | 215 |
| 1932 | 488 | 1924 | 191 |
| 1931 | 510 | 1923 | 205 |
| 1930 | 489 | 1922 | 204 |
| 1929 | 481 | 1921 | 198 |
| 1928 | 481 | 1920 | 169 |
| 1927 | 454 | 1919 | 139 |
The patients were admitted to the Home from the following
wards:—
Barkingside 58
North Hainault 91
Cranbrook 30
Park 43
Seven Kings 61
South Hainault 33
Loxford 51
Clementswood 42
Goodmayes 41
218 cases could not be admitted during the year owing to lack
of accommodation.
As the north-east corner of the Ward Block was being converted
and extended, the number of bookings for December was reduced
from 38 to 20.
At the end of the year 306 cases were booked for future
admission to the Home.
The average number of patients in the Home per day during
1935 was 21.01, and the average length of stay of patients 16.46
days.
Of the 450 cases admitted during 1935, 442 were confined in
the Home, 2 cases were transferred to hospital, one was admitted
and subsequently confined at home, one was admitted for antenatal
treatment and had not been re-admitted for the confinement
at the end of the year, 2 had miscarriages, one died before delivery,
and in one case a stillborn baby was born before arrival at the
Home.