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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
Bermondsey 1945
Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1945
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V.-MATERNITY AND CHILD
WELFARE.
FAIRBY GRANGE CONVALESCENT HOME. The total number of patients received into the home during the year, including mothers, babies and toddlers, was 289.
| Number of women admitted | 144 |
| Number of babies admitted | 69 |
| Number of toddlers admitted | 76 |
PREMATURE CHILDREN —ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN—
HOME HELPS—CHILD LIFE PROTECTION.
There were twenty-nine premature births during the year including
one set of twins ; eight of these children died. Five of them died
within twenty-four hours of birth and could probably not have been
saved by any means. Of the remaining three children, one was born
at twenty-eight weeks pregnancy and had only the slenderest chance
of survival, one died at eight weeks of gastro-enteritis being only
3 lb. 10 ozs. at birth, and the third one died at five months of meningitis.
The total number of illegitimate children under five now known
to be living in the Borough is 137.
During the year we have employed four full-time and sixteen
part-time Home Helps in giving assistance to fifty patients.