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PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE
This section deals with those services which come under the
control of the Barking Health Area Sub-Committee of the Health
Committee of the Essex County Council.
CARE OF MOTHERS AND YOUNG CHILDREN
maternity service
Ante-Natal Care. This was received by all but 2 of the 988
Barking mothers confined during 1955 and was given as follows:—
Clinics 824
Hospitals (excluding Barking Hospital) 114
General Practitioners 48
No ante-natal care 2
988
Confinements. During the year 988 mothers were confined, giving
birth to 1,010 infants (including 22 pairs of twins). These were born
as follows:—
Barking Hospital 646
Other Hospitals 117
At home 247
1,010
From this it will be seen that the majority of Barking babies continue
to be born in hospital.
I regret to have to report a maternal death during 1955, in a
patient who was taken ill during labour and admitted to hospital.
She died before delivery could be effected from pulmonary embolus,
which may have had no association with the pregnancy.
The maternal mortality rate is 0.99 per 1,000 live and still births.
Post-Natal Care. 810 women attended the Post-Natal Clinic
making a total of 1,021 attendances; 211 women had conditions
requiring a further attendance.
Of the 810 women who attended, 276 were resident outside the
area but had their babies in Barking Hospital. Out of a total of 988
confinements of Barking mothers during the year, 634 attended the
Post-Natal Clinic; 130 were under the care of their General Practitioner
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