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 Merton & Morden]
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hospital Clinics during 1940, 1941 and 1942. The following table shows the accommodation used by mothers in the district for the years under review.
1940. | 1941. | 1942. | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nelson Hospital | 256 | 219 | 216 | |||
Kingston County Hospital | 9 | 17 | 20 | |||
St. Helier's Hospital | 9 | — | 22 | |||
Other hospitals | - | 10 | 9 | |||
274 | 246 | 267 | ||||
(a) Total number of attendances at the Infant Clinic during the years under review | ||||||
(1) By children under one year of age | - | - | 701* | |||
(2) By children between the ages of one and five years | 7 | - | - | |||
(b) Total number of children who first attended at the Clinic during the year and who on the date of their first attendance were | ||||||
(1) Under one year of age | 84 | 51 | 51 | |||
(2) Between the ages of one and five years | 2 | - | Nil | |||
(c) Total number of children under five years of age who attended at the Clinic during the year and who at the end of the year were:— | ||||||
(1) Under one year of age | 79 | 50 | 50 | |||
(2) Over one year of age | 7 | 1 | 1 | |||
(a) Total number of attendances at the Clinics during the | ||||||
year | 175 | 172 | 1,720* | 83 | 100 | 205* |
(b) Total number of women who attended at the Clinics during | ||||||
the year | — | — | 172 | — | — | 100 |
*All districts.
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