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 22
FAMILY PLANNING SERVICE
Attendances at sessions held at clinics in the borough during the year. | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Premises | New Cases | Old Patierts | Total Patients | Total Visits | No. of Sessions. |
Council Clinics St. Georges | 119 | - | 119 | 377 | 92 |
Wigram House | 10 | - | 10 | 10 | 1 |
Domiciliary Service | 21 | 21 | 42 | 198 | - |
Greenwood | 234 | - | 234 | 716 | 97 |
Leopold Street | 232 | - | 232 | 830 | 69 |
Family Planning Association Clinics Underwood Road | 451 | 842 | 1,293 | 3,072 | 190 |
Wapping | 30 | 54 | 84 | 269 | 26 |
Wellington Way | 274 | 374 | 648 | 1,631 | 97 |
Totals: 1970 Statistics | 1.371 | 1.291 | 2,662 | 7,103 | 572 |
1,250 | 987 | 2,405 * | 5, 927 | 517 |
TABLE 23 including 168 transfers.
HEALTH VISITING
No. Visited | No. of Visits | |
---|---|---|
Children born this year | 2,103 ) | |
„ „ last year | 1,653 ) | 33,738 |
„ „ 1966-69 | 4,594 ) | |
Aged persons | 141 | 466 |
Mentally disordered persons | 39 | 199 |
Tuberculous households | 6 | 13 |
Households on account of other infectious diseases | 16 | 62 |
Persons, excluding maternity cases, discharged | ||
from hospital (other than Mental Hospitals) | 14 | 59 |
Other Cases | 876 | 2,135 |
Visits to expectant and nursing mothers | - | 1,605 |
Visits to problem families | - | 2, 177 |
Total effective visits | 40,454 | |
Unsuccessful visits | 8,449 |
TABLE 24
PREMATURE BIRTHS
Born in Hospital | Born at Home or in Nursing Home | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1971 | 1970 | 1969 | 1968 | 1971 | 1970 | 1969 | 1968 | |
No. of Births | 166 | 211 | 211 | 177 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 23 |
Died within 24 hours | 18 | 11 | 8 | 12 | 1 | - | - | 2 |
Died within 1/28 days | 7 | 8 | 11 | 13 | - | - | 1 | - |
Premature still births | 20 | 23 | 17 | 26 | 2 | - | - | 2 |