London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Greenwich 1971
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Greenwich Borough]
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The following table indicates the use which was made of the scheme in 1971:
| Type of case | No. | |
|---|---|---|
| Psychiatric | 15 | |
| Tuberculous | 1 | |
| Other Adults | 139 | |
| Expectant and Nursing Mothers | — | |
| Other Mothers | 12 | |
| Accompanied | 20 | |
| Unaccompanied: | ||
| Aged 0-1 year | — | |
| Aged 1-2 years | — | |
| Aged 2-5 years | 6 | |
| — | 26 | |
| Accompanied | 13 | |
| Unaccompanied | 103 | |
| — | 116 | |
| Total Holidays 309 | ||
Unsupported Mothers
Unsupported mothers are put in touch with the Social Services
Directorate and/or Moral Welfare Workers who, in most cases,
arrange for admission to a Mother and Baby Home during the
ante-natal period.
Following confinement, most mothers return to the Mother and
Baby Homes, some rejoin their families while others prefer to
find lodgings. Occasionally, mothers request the Children's
Department to arrange for the adoption of their babies. However,
where the mother wishes to rear her child, every assistance is
given by the health visitors who support its priority admission to
a Day Nursery or recommendation to known child minders.
During 1971, 93 women contacted the undermentioned Moral
Welfare Organisations in Greenwich: —
Southwark Catholic Children's Society 8
Southwark Diocesan Association 85
Compiled from information supplied by the Registrar-General