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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
The building of this Clinic commenced during the year
and was almost completed at the end of December.
A proposal was made that the family doctors running the
group practice on the Estate should be given the opportunity
of renting accommodation in the clinic instead of operating
from the temporary surgery building.
CARE OF MOTHERS AND YOUNG CHILDREN
maternity service
Ante-Natal Care. This was given as follows:-
Clinics 739
Hospitals (excluding Barking Hospital) 165
General Practitioners 57
Total 961
Confinements. During the year 964 mothers were confined,
giving birth to 984 infants (including 20 sets of twins). These
were born as follows:-
Barking Hospital 545
Other Hospitals 171
At home 268
Total 984
In four instances, patients failed to seek ante-natal care
and of these cases three of the children were illegitimate
and in the fourth the baby was premature.
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