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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
Holborn 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]
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Baths.
The baths provided at the John Street Centre for expectant and nursing
mothers were used 81 times during the year 1936.
| Number of enquiries made | 275 | |
| Holborn Centre, 10, John Street | 12 | |
| Holborn Centre, Short's Gardens | 15 | |
| Royal Free Hospital | 18 | |
| Middlesex Hospital | 12 | |
| Charing Cross Hospital | 28 | |
| University College Hospital | 30 | |
| Myddelton Square Institution | 27 | |
| St. Bartholomew's Hospital | 26 | |
| City of London Hospital | 16 | |
| Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital | 3 | |
| St. Pancras Hospital | 30 | |
| Other Centres | 19 | |
| Ante-natal care from private doctors | 8 | |
| 244 | ||
| 10, John Street, | Short's Gardens | |
| Holborn. | St. Giles. | |
| No. of women attending ante-natal clinics | 65 | 15 |
| Women expectant for the first time | 9 | 3 |
| No. of attendances made | 141 | 37 |
| Deformed pelvis | 3 | — |
| Threatened miscarriage | 2 | _ |
| Retroverted gravid uterus | 2 | _ |
| Transverse lie | 1 | |
| Excessive vomiting | 9 | _ |
| (Edema | 2 | 2 |
| Varicose veins | 6 | 3 |
| Ante-partum haemorrhage | 1 | - |
| High blood pressure | 2 | - |
| OthJer defects | 3 | — |
| Other defects:— | ||
| Heart disease | 3 | - |
| Anaemia | 5 | — |
| Respiratory diseases | 3 | — |
| Constipation | 25 | 1 |
| Dental caries | 15 | 4 |
| Dyspepsia | 7 | _ |
| Pyorrhoea | 4 | _ |
| Rheumatism | 2 | _ |
| Other defects | 10 | — |
| No. referred to maternity hospitals :— | ||
| Normal | 6 | 12 |
| Abnormal | 7 | 2 |
| No. referred to dental clinic | 11 | 4 |
| No. of urine tests made | 68 | 2 |