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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

Hornsey 1952

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]

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home confinements, should have been in hospitals and closer co-operation
than already exists is needed to ensure that the right patients are admitted
to maternity beds.

Table: TABLE 1

TABLE 1

195219511950194919481947
Total Births
(Live and Still)3,2653,1623,2613,67240594,935
Institutional Births2,6792,4872,3942,7062,7542,684
Percentage of Total82.178.673.473.767.854.4
Domiciliary Births5866758679661,3052,251
Percentage of Total17.921.426.626.332.245.6

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Ante-natal Clinics
The average attendance at ante-natal clinics continues to decline
but has not yet reached the stage where any curtailment in the number
of sessions held is desirable. The following table shows the attendance
at clinics during 1952 and the totals for the preceding three years are
given for purposes of comparison. Separate post-natal clinics are not
held.

Table: TABLE 2

TABLE 2

Ante-natal ClinicsNo. of sessions holdNo. of new casesTotal attendancesAverage attendances per session
A.N.P.N.A.N.P.N.
Burgoyne Road50141879879125.6
Church Road78145581,2876217.3
Fortis Green612231481,54016127.9
Hornsey Town Hall2113131772,89318114.6
Mildura Court62199641,3636423.0
Stroud Green Road51158728917418.9
The Chestnuts2565112533,32626514.0
Lordship Lane2064052282,75823314.5
Park Lane1033662462,01824621.9
Totals19521,0782,4611,33317,0631,37717.1
19511,0382,4391,33016,9991,33217.7
19501,0822,5941,30319,0061,33118.7
19491,0742,7141,43820,61714,9120.6