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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

Stoke Newington 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stoke Newington, The Metropolitan Borough]

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II. GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES
HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATION.
Fever.—The isolation hospitals of the London County Council
receive cases of Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria and Membranous Croup,
Enteric, Typhus and Continued Fevers, Relapsing Fever, Anterior
Poliomyelitis, Encephalitis Lethargica, Cerebro-spinal Fever,
Puerperal Fever, Puerperal Pyrexia, Malaria, Dysentery, Ophthalmia
Neonatorum, and cases of Measles and Whooping Cough.
Smallpox.—The Special Isolation Hospitals of the London
County Council.
Tuberculosis.—The London County Council accept cases for
admission to their hospitals and sanatoria on the recommendation
of the Tuberculosis Officer.

Table: Maternity .—The number of births in hospitals to Stoke Newington residents given below, shows the popularity of these institutions :—

Maternity .—The number of births in hospitals to Stoke Newington residents given below, shows the popularity of these institutions :—

Salvation Army Mothers' Hospital54
City of London Maternity Hospital79
Mildmay Maternity Nursing Home43
Royal Free Hospital46
Home Hospital for Women12
Hackney Hospital (L.C.C.)137
Jewish Maternity Hospital28
Royal Northern Hospital13
University College Hospital23
Mile End Hospital19
German Hospital18
15 Other Hospitals44
8 Nursing Homes18
Total534

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Thus 77 per cent. of the total births took place in institutions as
compared with 69 per cent. the previous year.
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