Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the health of the Borough of Bethnal Green during the year 1922
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dressing rooms, a treatment room, a dispensary, a
large waiting and lecture hall, a health visitor's office
and a staff room, as well as ample storeroom accommodation
in the basement. The premises have been
well adapted and equipped and the decoration of the
building has been designed with a view to enhancing
its attractiveness and educational value as a welfare
Centre. The increased accommodation enables a fair
range of activities to be carried on there, and the
popularity of the Centre already appears likely to
tax its capacity. Infant consultations are held on
three afternoons a week, three doctors usually being
in attendance each afternoon. Maternity consultations
are held on two mornings a week. The Centre
is also used as an office for the receipt of applications
and making of enquiries respecting milk grants in
necessitous cases on two mornings per week.
MATERNITY CLINIC.
| New ante-natal cases | 253 |
| Subsequent attendances | 279 |
| 532 | |
| New post-natal cases | 97 |
| Subsequent attendances | 86 |
| 183 | |
| Total attendances | 715 |
There were 101 sessions, the average attendance
being 7.
The ante-natal cases, 253 in number, may be analysed as follows:—
| Number of primigravidse | 51 |
| Full-term confinements, including 6 stillbirths | 144 |
| Premature births (1 stillborn) | 4 |
| Miscarriages | 5 |
| Not yet confined (March 12th, 1923) | 45 |
| Found not to be pregnant | 24 |