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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
Battersea 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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The Council also undertake, on behalf of various hospitals, to
visit and report on the home conditions of Battersea patients
receiving treatment in the obstetric, gynaecological and other
departments of the hospitals.
The following table presents a summary of the number of cases referred to various hospitals and other institutions from the various clinics, and also the number of visits paid by the Council's Health Visitors on the request of the hospitals:—
| Hospital or Institution. | Cases referred from Clinics. | Visits paid for Hospital. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ante- and post-natal Visits. | Other. | Total. | ||
| Battersea General | _ | _ | 2 | 2 |
| Bolingbroke | 4 | — | — | — |
| Charing Cross | — | 19 | — | 19 |
| Elizabeth Garrett Anderson | — | 1 | — | 1 |
| General Lying-in | — | 211 | — | 211 |
| Kings College | — | 11 | — | 11 |
| Metropolitan | — | 1 | — | 1 |
| Middlesex | 18 | — | — | — |
| National, for Diseases of the Heart | 1 | — | — | — |
| National Orthopaedic | 1 | — | — | — |
| Royal Free | — | 1 | — | 1 |
| St. Bartholomew's | — | 1 | — | 1 |
| St. George's | — | 103 | 3 | 106 |
| St. James's | 5 | — | — | — |
| St. Thomas's | 11 | 331 | 100 | 431 |
| St. Thomas's Babies | 329 | — | — | — |
| South London, for Women | 17 | — | — | — |
| University College | — | — | — | — |
| Victoria, Chelsea | 252 | — | 90 | 90 |
| Vincent Square | — | — | — | — |
| Westminster | — | 38 | 2 | 40 |
| Battersea Tuberculosis Dis-pensary | 2 | — | — | — |
| Dr. Barnardo's Homes | — | — | 5 | 5 |
| Totals | 640 | 717 | 202 | 919 |
Southwark Diocesan Homes.
For some years past the Council has contributed towards the
cost of the maintenance during the period before and after confinement
of unmarried mothers and their children resident in the district,
by the Southwark Diocesan Association for Preventive and Rescue