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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
Bethnal Green 1932
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]
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The number of sessions was 113, and the average
attendance per session was 11 2.
41 of the mothers who attended for pre-natal care
also attended the Maternity Clinic after their confinement,
and 15 mothers were sent away to a convalescent
home.
The 372 women who attended for the first time may be grouped as follows:—
| Gravid:—Primipara | 45 | |
| —Multipara | 307 | |
| 352 | ||
| Not pregnant | 20 | |
| 372 | ||
In the case of the 352 gravid women, the following were the periods of gestation:—
| 3 were in the 1st month |
| 39 „ „ „ 2nd „ |
| 27 „ „ „ 3rd „ |
| 52 „ „ „ 4th „ |
| 50 „ „ „ 5th „ |
| 84 „ „ „ 6th „ |
| 70 „ „ „ 7th „ |
| 27 „ „ „ 8th „ |
| nil „ „ „ 9th „ |
An analysis of these cases shows:—
| Full-term confinements | 233 |
| Premature births | 4 |
| Miscarriages (6); Stillbirths (5) | 11 |
| Not yet confined | 94 |
| Left Borough (results unknown) | 6 |
| Transferred to Hereford St. Clinic | 4 |
| The known confinements took place:— | |
| 192 at home, and | |
| 56 in institutions. | |
| Wasserman reaction for syphilis Nil | |