Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]
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she was then about 7 months pregnant. She was admitted
to hospital for induction of labour and subsequent operation.
Pleasant co-operation between hospital and doctors in
practice in the district is continued. The Borough Midwife
visits the clinic as her time permits, giving the mothers who
engage her for their confinements an opportunity of seeing
her if they wish.
Records :—
Expectant Mothers First attendances 120
Subsequent attendances 367
Mothers recently confined First attendances 84
Subsequent attendances 64
Total Attendances 635
Number of sessions held 51
Average attendance per session 12.5
Mothers attending both before and after confinement 28
Primiparse 7
Multiparae 99
Not pregnant 15
121
Periods of gestation :—
In the 1st month Nil
2nd 8
3rd 10
4th 24
5th 17
6th 22
7th 16
8th 7
9th 2
Full-term confinements 49
Not yet confined 42
Removed from district 11
Premature child 1
Miscarriages 2
Stillbirths 2
Known confinements at home. 39
in institutions 14
Cases brought forward from 1933 :—
Full-term confinements 31
Removed from district 1
Not pregnant 1
Induction for carcinoma of breast 1