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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

City of Westminster 1920

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]

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this course, as the attendances at the medical inspection are already so
numerous that an additional session is urgently required. At Rochester
Row Centre an additional session for children has been instituted.
Expectant Mothers.—The names of 786 were sent by hospitals,
doctors and midwives, voluntarily notified or found by visitors, and to
these, and to 189 cases brought forward from 1919, 2,796 visits were
paid at their homes, besides numerous interviews at the Centres; 149
were carried forward to 1921, and 54 moved out of Westminster before
the confinement took place. Of the 772 who were confined, 724 had
live and 34 stillborn children, while there were 34 miscarriages. 225
attended the Mothercraft Classes at the various Centres.

Table: Pre-natal cases.—

Pre-natal cases.—

Pimlico.Bess-borough.Greek Street.Rochester Row.Total.
Brought forward from 191940255767189
New cases 1920221102225238786
261127282305975

Table: Result—

Result—

Confined—live child194107200223724
Confined—stillborn child6118934
Miscarriage541414
Moved away before con
finement1712101554
Carried forward to 19213935354149
Twins(3)—(3)(3)
Interviews at Centres........1,112

Table: The sources of information were:—

The sources of information were:—

General Lying-in Hospital146
Westminster „69
St. George's „19
St. Thomas's „26
King's College „2
Found by Health Visitors98
Applied at Centre153
Charing Cross Hospital81
Middlesex „89
Royal Free „2
City of London „5
Queen Charlotte's „8
Private doctors and mid-wives87