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Poplar 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]

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Table: Convalescent Treatment, etc.

Convalescent Treatment, etc.

Convalescent Treatment (mothers with babies) ..29 cases.
,, ,, (mothers alone) ..2 "
,, ,, (children under 5 years) ..39
Loan of maternity bag, containing clothing, etc...13

Table: Grants by Maternity and Child Welfare Committee during the Calendar Year, 1938.

Grants by Maternity and Child Welfare Committee during the Calendar Year, 1938.

Maternity Outfits at half-price12
,, ,, free to Nursing Sisters of St. John the Divine274

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The Committee provided dentures to five necessitous mothers who
were unable to complete their payments, the cost to the Committee being
£7 2s . od.
{The following tables refer to the whole Borough.)

Table: Statistics Respecting Infants Born in 1937.

Statistics Respecting Infants Born in 1937.

All births, including those occurring in outlying districts, but belonging to the Borough2,230
Doctors in attendance178
Midwives in attendance560
Delivered in institutions1,492
Not stated—
Moved into Borough147
2.3 77
Stillborn (Stillbirths per 1,000 births)60
Died before visit31
Not requiring or desiring visits56
--147
Visited2,230
Removed within the year ...39i
Died during visitation77
-468
Remaining under supervision end of first year „1,762
Mortality per 1,000 visited34-5