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International Certificates of Vaccination against Smallpox
1970 1971
Number authenticated 3237 3730
Number returned as doctor did not
practise in the City 43 42
V.D. Contact Tracing
The Principal Health and Welfare Officer is responsible for thefollow up of possible contacts
of known cases within the City.
Requests received for assistance in 1970 1971
follow up:
City Cases NIL 1
Non City Cases 14 2

The Health and Welfare Officers continued to provide talks to small groups and the demand
is steadily growing. There is an ever increasing demand for leaflets and posters on many aspects
of health maintenance.
A series of Slimmers Lunches was organised by the Spastics Society whose aim was to inform
the public about the importance of weight control and also to raise funds. The Corporation made a
grant towards the expenses of the project. Four weekly lunches were held, and the would-be
slimmers received advice on diet and so on.They were invited to seek sponsorshipfor each pound
lost during the period.
The project received much publicity and was felt to have been a success.
Family Planning
Rent free premises are provided for the Family Planning Association at Milton Court where
three lunch-time and one evening sessions are held each week for City Workers and residents.
The Corporation continues to underwrite the cost of consultation and supplies to married women
residents referred on medical grounds. Following the National Health Service (Family Planning) Act
1967, the Corporation also underwrites the cost of consultation to married women residents or other
residents who seek advice on social grounds.
The Corporation also gives a grant to the Family Planning Association.
The Association has submitted the following report on their work in the City:-
"There is no doubt at all that thefamily planning service provided by the Corporation through
the Family Planning Association clinic continues to be very much welcomed and used by City
residents, and workers. 204 sessions were held during the year and the total number of people
attending the clinic, of whom 83 were City residents, was 1606 compared with 1480 in 1970. In all
4491 attendances were made by these patients. The number coming for the first time remains
about the same, 598 this year and 609 in 1970, and will do so until it is possible to increase the
number of lunch time clinic sessions. The waiting list for these sessions is four weeks.
The doctors at the clinic discuss all methods of contraception with patients, but as will be
seen from statistics kept throughout the year by the clinic for the Department of Health and Social
Security the majority of patients attending this clinic chose oral contraceptives, the breakdown of
the 598 new patients being as follows:-
Oral contraceptives 488
Diaphragm 79
IUD 3
Sheath 5
Chemical 5
Consultation only 18
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