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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

Tower Hamlets 1965

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tower Hamlets, London Borough]

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95.
TABLE 25
DOMICILIARY MIDWIFERY
Attendances by Midwives
Doctor
present
Doctor not
present
1. Doctor not booked
Midwife - Council
-
1
- Nursing Sisters of St. John the Divine
-
6
- The London Hospital
-
5
12
2. Doctor booked
Council
1
12
Nursing Sisters of St. John the Divine
8
172
The London Hospital
11
230
Total:
20
426
3. Institutional deliveries attended by Midwife
on discharge before tenth day 199
4. Patients receiving - Gas and Air 94
Trilene 85
Pethidine alone 10
Pethidine with gas/air 3
Pethidine with Trilene 8
No analgesia 180
Unspecified
(period Jan. - Mar.) 66
Total: 446