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PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICES
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.
CLINIC PREMISES
Health Services Clinic—Thames View Estate
In late December, 1958, the Ministry of Health agreed that this
scheme could be commenced provided it was completed by the end
of 1959.
The housing estate as such was started in 1954 and the final
phases of the scheme are now under way.
By agreement with the family doctors running the group practice
on the estate, district midwives' clinic was started on Wednesday
afternoons as from 14th July. 1958, and an infant welfare session
was commence on the 13th August, 1958. in the temporary surgery
accommodation erected on behalf of the group by the Barking
Borough Council.
CARE OF MOTHERS AND YOUNG CHILDREN
MATERNITY SERVICE
Ante-Natal Care. This was given as follows:—
Clinics 713
Hospitals (excluding Barking Hospital) 137
General Practitioners 77
927
Confinement During the year 930 mothers were confined,
giving birth to 9 ) infants (including 10 sets of twins). These were
born as follows:—
Barking Hospital 566
Other Hospitals 141
At home 233
940
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