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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
Kensington and Chelsea 1969
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington & Chelsea Borough]
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In addition to these domiciliary cases, the midwives have attended
planned and unplanned discharges whose numbers have increased from 184
to 204 during 1969. They have also attended 40 mothers in the General
Practitioner Unit at St. Mary Abbots Hospital. These are mothers who
are medically and obstetrically normal, but, who, for varying reasons,
cannot conveniently be delivered in their homes.
Cases booked
with a doctor
Cases not booked
with a doctor
1969 1968 1969 1968
Council's midwives 57 81 25
Hospital midwives 13 8 18
TOTAL 70 89 3 13
Planned early Unplanned early
discharges discharges
1969 1968 1969 1968
Nursed by Council's
midwives 108 30 57 31
Nursed by Kensington District
Nursing Association 22 78 4 36
Nursed by hospital midwives 10 6 3 3
TOTAL 140 114 64 70
1969 1968 1969 1968
Number of confinements in
General Practitioner
Maternity Unit 40 35
Doctor present 38 31