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Acton 1918
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]
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1918
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TABLE 15.
ANTE-NATAL CLINIC.
| Number of times the Clinic was held | 27 |
| Number of expectant mothers who attended | 33 |
| Number of attendances made by expectant mothers | 65 |
| Numberof cases admitted to Acton Hospital | 7 |
| Ante-natal Visits. | |
| Number of mothers visited | 145 |
| Number of visits paid to mothers | 441 |
TABLE 16.
| INQUESTS. | ||||
| Held in the District | 48 | |||
| Cause of Death. | ||||
| Suicide | 9 | Heart Disease | 9 | |
| Injury at Birth | 3 | Influenza | i | |
| Accidentally killed by a motor vehicle | 3 | Pneumonia | 4 | |
| Overloaded stomach | 2 | |||
| Accidentally killed by an aeroplane propeller | 1 | Phthisis | 2 | |
| Ptomaine poisoning | 2 | |||
| Scalds | 1 | Convulsions | 1 | |
| Burns | 1 | Status Lymphaticus | I | |
| Fracture of Skull | 1 | Ruptured Aortic Aneurism | 1 | |
| Fall from Window | 1 | Diarrhoea | 1 | |
| Wilful Murder | 1 | |||
| Deaths outside the District | 14. | |||
| Fractured Skull | 3 | |||
| Suicide | 2 | |||
| Burns | 2 | |||
| Found drowned | 2 | |||
| Run over by a train | 2 | |||
| Pneumonia | 1 | |||
| Heart Disease | 1 | |||
| Phthisis | 1 | |||
TABLE 17.
| BACTERIOLOGICAL LABORATORY. | |
| 251 Swabs from the throats and nose were examined :— 58 were positive and 103 were negative. | |
| The specimens were from : — | |
| Doctors private patients | 73 |
| Hospital patients | 156 |
| School contacts | 14 |
| School sore throats | 5 |
| Convalescent cases prior 10 school attendance | 3 |