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 Hounslow]
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Number of Clinics provided at end of 1967 | 7 |
Number of sessions held by Medical Officers | 245 |
Number of sessions held by Mid wives | 138 |
Total | 383 |
Number of women who attended in 1967 | |
Ante-natal | 615 |
Post-natal | 52 |
Total number of attendances by women shown above | |
Ante-natal | 2076 |
Post-natal | 72 |
Number of women who attended during 1967 | |
Institutionally booked | 608 |
Domiciliary booked | 205 |
Total | 813 |
Total number of attendances during 1967 | 2675 |
Table 17 Care of premature infants
Number of premature babies born alive to mothers normally resident in the Borough, but excluding babies born in maternity homes or hospitals in the National Health Service | |||
Born at home or in a private nursing home | Born at home or in a private nursing home and nursed entirely at home, or in a private nursing home | ||
number born | died during first 24 hours | survived to end of 28 days | |
14 | 14 | - | 14 |
Number of centres in use at end of 1967* | 12 |
Number of Child Welfare Sessions held by | |
Medical officers | 1310 |
Health visitors | 68 |
Hospital medical staff | 51 |
Total | 1429 |
Number of children who attended during the | |
year and who were born in | |
1967 | 3086 |
1966 | 2940 |
1962-1965 | 2664 |
Total | 8690 |
Number of attendances made by children shown above | 51402 |
* The number of centres includes one mobile unit
fully staffed by the Council, and a clinic held at
Queen Charlotte's Hospital at which the Council
provides a health visitor only.
Number | 3 |
Number of approved places | 136 |
Number of children on register at end of year | |
Age under 2 years | 36 |
Age 2-5 years | 106 |
Average daily attendance during the year* | |
Age under 2 years | 31 |
Age 2-5 years | 80 |
* These are arithmetical averages which reflect
absences due to infectious and other illness, and
also the postponement of new admissions during
outbreaks of infectious illness.
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