London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1965
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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TABLE 30.—Clinic Services Ante-Natal And Post-Natal Clinics
| Number of Women in attendance | Number of Sessions held by | Total number of Sessions in Columns 3-6 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| For Ante-natal Examination | For Post-natal Examination | Medical Officers | Midwives | G.P's employed on a Sessional basis | Hospital Medical staff | |
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) |
| 1,998 | 133 | 376 | 9 | 195 | 263 | 843 |
TABLE 31.—Ante-Natal Mothercraft and Relaxation Classes
| 1 | Number of Women who attended during the year | (a) | Institutional booked | 431 |
| (b) | Domiciliary booked | 13 | ||
| (c) | Total | 444 | ||
| 2 | Total number of attendances during the year | 1,996 | ||
| 3 | Total number of Sessions during the year | 293 | ||
TABLE 32.— Child Welfare Centres
| Number of Children who attended during the year | Number of Sessions held by | Total number of Sessions in Columns (5)-(8) | Number of Children referred elsewhere | Number of Children on "at risk" register at end of year | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born in 1965 | Born in 1964 | Born in 1960-1963 | Total | Medical Officers | Health Visitors | G.P's employed on a Sessional basis | Hospital Medical staff | |||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | (9) | (10) | (11) |
| 3,032 | 2,773 | 3,134 | 8,939 | 1,128 | — | 638 | 312 | 2,078 | 325 | 1,998 |
TABLE 33—Health Visiting
| Cases visited by Health Visitors | Number of cases | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Children born in 1965 | 3,494 |
| 2 | Children born in 1964 | 4,282 |
| 3 | Children born in 1960-63 | 7,425 |
| 4 | Total number of children in lines 1-3 | 15,201 |
| 5 | Persons aged 65 or over | 329 |
| 6 | Number included in line 5 who were visited at the special request of a G.P. or hospital | 72 |
| 7 | Mentally disordered persons | 81 |
| 8 | Number included in line 7 who were visited at the special request of a G.P. or hospital | 6 |
| 9 | Persons, excluding Maternity cases, discharged from hospital (other than mental hospitals) | 117 |
| 10 | Number included in line 9 who were visited at the special request of a G.P. or hospital | 71 |
| 11 | Number of tuberculous households visited | 18 |
| 12 | Number of households visited on account of other infectious diseases | 51 |
| 13 | Number of tuberculous households visited, by tuberculosis visitors | 888 |