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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
Southwark 1968
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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The following table indicates the volume of work undertaken in the district nursing
service during 1968:—
New patients visited
3,068
Total number of visits
134,675
Nursing staff employed at the end of the year
(full-time equivalent)
57
Visits per nuise (full-time equivalent)
2,362
TOTAL NUMBER OF BIRTHS-LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
Live Births
Hospital confinements 4,389
Domiciliary confinements 521 4,910
Still Births
Hospital confinements 72
Domiciliary confinements 2 74
Deaths of infants in first week of life 51
Deaths of infants one week to one month 10
Deaths of infants one month to one year 27
Perinatal mortality per 1,000 total live and stillbirths 25
Neonatal mortality per 1,000 live births 10.5
Infant mortality per 1,000 live births 18
DOMICILIARY MIDWIFERY SERVICE
Administration of Analgesia 79.08%
Cases with booked G.P. Obstetrician 94.43%
No. of Midwives at end of year
Full time 11
General Lying-In District 4
Doctor not booked
Doctor present at delivery —
Doctor not present at delivery 6
Doctor booked
Doctor present at delivery 158
Doctor not present at delivery 359
No. of hospital deliveries attended by midwives on
discharge before 10th day 857
3.65% of domiciliary live births were premature
20