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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 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]
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41
RECORDS :—
Expectant Mothers : First attendances
124
Subsequent attendances
402
Mothers recently confined :
First attendances
90
Subsequent attendances
86
Total attendances
702
Number of sessions held
51
Average attendance per session
13.8
Mothers attending both before and after confinement
47
Primipara;
3
Multipara
105
Not pregnant
16
124
Periods of Gestation :—
In the 1st month Nil
2nd „ 6
„ 3rd „ 14
„ 4th „ 18
„ 5th „ 26
6th „ 16
„ 7th „ 17
„ 8th „ 9
„ 9th „ 1
Full-term confinements 73
Not yet confined 28
Removed from district 4
Pregnancy terminated 1
Miscarriage 1
Stillbirths 1
Known confinements at home 38
„ ,, in institutions 35
Cases brought forward from 1934 :—
Full-term confinements 39
Removed from district 3