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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 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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The following table presents a summary of the number of cases referred to 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. | Other. | Total. | ||
| Battersea General | 21 | _ | 1 | 1 |
| Belgrave | 3 | - | 1 | 1 |
| Bolingbroke | 36 | - | — | — |
| Charing Cross | — | 13 | — | 13 |
| Children's, Gt. Ormond St. | 6 | — | 5 | 5 |
| General Lying-in | — | 334 | — | 334 |
| Hammersmith (L.C.C.) | — | 30 | — | 30 |
| King's College | — | 7 | — | 7 |
| Lambeth, Brook St. (L.C.C.) | — | 1 | — | 1 |
| Middlesex | — | 4 | — | 4 |
| National, Queens Square | 1 | — | — | — |
| Paddington (L.C.C.) | — | 1 | — | 1 |
| Royal Eye | 1 | — | — | — |
| Royal Orthopaedic | 1 | — | — | — |
| St. George's | — | 91 | — | . 91 |
| St. James's (L.C.C.) | 29 | 1,125 | 4 | 1,129 |
| St. Luke's (L.C.C.) | — | — | — | — |
| St. Mary Abbotts (L.C.C.) | — | 13 | — | 13 |
| St. Stephen's (L.C.C.) | 1 | 236 | — | 236 |
| St. Thomas's | 87 | 204 | 42 | 246 |
| St. Thomas's, Babies | 276 | — | — | — |
| South London, for Women | 10 | 6 | — | 6 |
| Victoria, Chelsea | 616 | — | 263 | 263 |
| Vincent Square | 8 | — | 2 | 2 |
| Westminster | 5 | 24 | — | 24 |
| Battersea Tuberculosis Dispensary | - | - | - | - |
| Other Societies | — | — | 17 | 17 |
| L.C.C. ante-natal and midwifery services | - | 208 | 208 | |
| Private midwives' cases | — | 116 | — | 116 |
| Totals | 1,101 | 2,413 | 335 | 2,748 |
The London County Council, with a view to establishing a
closer link between the Maternity and Child Welfare clinics of the
borough councils and the general hospitals of the County Council,
invited the Council to agree in principle to the association of the
medical officers of the clinics in an honorary capacity with the
maternity departments and ante-natal clinics at the hospitals.