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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
Poplar 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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Of this number the following attended our Ante-Natal Clinics:—
| Doctors' patients | 6 | (7.6%) |
| Midwives' patients | 2381 | (77.0%) |
| St. Andrew's Hospital | 308 | (71.3%) |
| East End Maternity Hospital | 18 | (11.2%) |
| Other Institutions | 6 | (3.3%) |
| 576 | (49.6%) |
* This number refers to the cases in the practices of private midwives. The
patients of midwives attached to nursing associations attend the associations' antenatal
clinics.
| Number of individual patients | 755 |
| New Cases | 680 |
| Total attendances | 2,913 |
| Average attendance per session | 15.3 (compared with 33.8 at R. Coll. double sessions) |
| First visits | 882 |
| Revisits | 1,796 |