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CARE OF MOTHERS AND YOUNG CHILDREN
(Section 22)
Notification of Births
The following table shows the births notified during the year
compared with previous years. The number notified last year was
the highest since 1947 and the percentage of hospital confinements was
80.8%.
1963 1962 1961
Live Births (a) Domiciliary 911 943 853
(b) Hospital or Nursing Home 3798 3636 3219
Still Births (a) Domiciliary 5 4 7
(b) Hospital or Nursing Home 63 67 52
4777 4650 4131
Ante-natal Clinics
These sessions for the care of mothers who are either booked
for hospital delivery or for home but have no general practitioner
giving ante-natal care, continue to be very busy. For the hospitalbooked
cases, attending their local clinics saves them long journeys
to the hospital and also relieves the pressure on the overcrowded
hospital ante-natal clinics.
It is interesting that in many parts of the country including
Middlesex, local authority ante-natal clinics are becoming smaller as
general practitioners take over the ante-natal care of their own
patients. This has not occurred in Tottenham and Hornsey. Four
of the medical officers attend clinics at hospitals as well as in the
clinic buildings. Two go to the North Middlesex Hospital and two to
the Bearsted Memorial Hospital. This is a valuable link between the
two services as personal meetings make co-operation immeasurably
easier.
The following table gives details of attendances at all clinics
in the Area:-
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