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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 1936

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]

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Medical Aid for Mothers.

Table: 106 calls were made on behalf of 100 mothers, as follows:—

106 calls were made on behalf of 100 mothers, as follows:—

Hemorrahage.Labour trouble.Perinneal tear.Temperatures:—Miscarriages and Abortions.Miscellaneous.Total.
Puerperal Fever & Pyrexia.Other causes.Ante-natal.Post-natal.
102836921713106

Table: Medical Aid for Infants.44 calls were made on behalf of infants, as follows:—

Medical Aid for Infants.

44 calls were made on behalf of infants, as follows:—

Dead, Feeble or Stillborn.Eye Cases.Total.
Inflammation of or Discharging Eyes.Notified as Ophthalmia.
20141044

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LECTURES AND DEMONSTRATIONS TO MIDWIVES.
Lectures and Demonstrations to Midwives have been arranged during
the year under the joint auspices of the London and Middlesex County
Councils, and Tottenham midwives have availed themselves of the
privilege to attend.
MIDWIVES' FEES.
During the year your Committee paid, or contributed to the Fees of
Midwives, in the following oases: —
cases
Authorisation of attendance in necessitous cases 27
Compensation for loss of practice, where the patient was
taken to the Ante-Natal Clinic, and was recommended
and subsequently admitted to hospital for
confinement 10