Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tower Hamlets, London Borough]
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TABLE 23
FAMILY PLANNING SERVICE Attendances at sessions held at clinics in the borough during the year.
Premises | New Cases | Transfers | Old Patients | Total Patients | Total Visits | No. of Sessions |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Council Clinics | ||||||
St. Georges | 144 | - | - | 144 | 384 | 79 |
Wigram House | 147 | - | - | 147 | 332 | 32 |
Domiciliary Service | 12 | - | 26 | 38 | 189 | - |
Greenwood | 146 | - | - | 146 | 421 | 49 |
Leopold Street | 60 | - | - | 60 | 215 | 17 |
Family Planning | ||||||
Association Clinics | ||||||
Underwood Road | 476 | 146 | 594 | 1,216 | 2,765 | 194 |
Wapping | 32 | 5 | 44 | 81 | 264 | 48 |
Wellington Way | 233 | 17 | 323 | 573 | 1,357 | 98 |
Totals: | 1,250 | 168 | 987 | 2,405 | 5,927 | 517 |
1969 Statistics | 1. 080 | 167 | 947 | 2.194 | 5.286 | 424 |
TABLE 24
HEALTH VISITING
No. Visited | No. of Visits | |
---|---|---|
Children born this year | 2,430 | |
" " last year | 1,803 | 36,229 |
" " 1965-1968 | 4,294 | |
Aged persons | 109 | 321 |
Mentally disordered persons | 40 | 234 |
Tuberculous households | 9 | 33 |
Households on account of other infectious diseases | 32 | 88 |
Persons, excluding maternity cases, discharged from | ||
hospital (other than Mental Hospitals) | 20 | 61 |
Other cases | 924 | 2,034 |
Visits to expectant and nursing mothers | - | 1,723 |
Visits to problem families | - | 2,235 |
Total effective visits | 42,958 | |
Unsuccessful visits | - | 8,098 |
TABLE 25
PREMATURE BIRTHS
Born in Hospital | Born at Home or . in Nursing Home | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1970 | 1969 | 1968 | 1967 | 1970 | 1969 | 1968 | 1967 | |
No. of Births | 211 | 211 | 177 | 213 | 9 | 5 | 23 | 11 |
Died within 24 hours | 11 | 8 | 12 | 16 | - | - | 2 | - |
Died within 1/28 days | 8 | 11 | 13 | 8 | - | 1 | - | - |
Premature still births | 23 | 17 | 26 | 28 | - | - | 2 | 1 |