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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
Tottenham 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]
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Births, 1934.
LIVE BIRTHS.
| Registrar-General's Figures—M. | 1,074 |
| F. | 1,017 |
| *2,091 | |
| Local Information :— | |
| Total Births notified | 2,112 |
| 60 | |
| Live Births | 2,052 |
*The Registrar's and the local figures do not agree because they
relate to different periods. The local notifications are those of children
born within the year; the Registrar's, of those children registered within
the year.
MATERNITY SERVICES.
Arrangements for Maternity Cases have been made, in respect
of patients able to pay the whole or part of the fee, with the Mothers'
Hospital, Clapton; for others, at the North Middlesex County Hospital.
The following table shows the various institutions in which the confinements of Tottenham residents took place, and the numbers in each:—
| The Mothers' Hospital, Clapton :— | ||
| Under the Council's Scheme | 51 | |
| Own arrangements | 140 | |
| 191 | ||
| The North Middlesex (County) Hospital | 397 | |
| Other Outside Institutions | 261 | |
| 849 | ||
The remainder were confined within the District.
BREAST FEEDING.
As the result of the Health Visitors' enquiries, it was ascertained that the infants have been fed as follows:—
| Breast fed | 1,681 | |
| Part Breast-fed—plus milk, dried milk or condensed milk | 218 | |
| Bottle feeding—Cow's milk | 64 | |
| Dried milk | 49 | |
| Other artificial foods | 28 | |
| Feedings unknown | 36 | |
| *2,076 | ||
| * Counted in feedings—transfers into district | 100 | |
| Not counted in feedings—removals and deaths | 86 | |