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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Croydon 1946
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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The Tables below give figures for 1946.
FOSTER CHILDREN
| No.as at Dec. 31 st 1945 | Notice of Reception of Children during the year | Notice of removal to— | Children Adopted | Died | Children reaching age of 9 | No. as at Dec. 31st 1946 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parent | Another area with Foster Parent | Another Foster Mother | Public Institu-tion | |||||||||||
| 112 | 132 | 64 | 25 | 12 | 10 | 23 | - | 3 | 107 | |||||
| FOSTER MOTHERS. | ||||||||||||||
| No. as at December 31st 1945 | Applications for Authorisation during the year. | Removals during the year | Authorisation cancelled for other reasons | No. as at December 31st 1946 | ||||||||||
| With Child | Without child | |||||||||||||
| 105 | 40 | — | 5 | 55 | 85 | |||||||||
The Health Visitors paid 1,097 visits to foster-mothers for
the purpose of supervision.
THE OBSTETRIC SERVICE.
The Obstetric Service has been described in my Report for
1938. The following are the statistics for 1946:—
Taking the Registrar-General's figures for maternal mortality
(deaths directly due to pregnancy), the rate for England and
Wales for 1946 was 1.43 per 1,000 births. In Croydon the rate
was 0.61. In "booked" cases treated by the Obstetric Service
the rate for 1946 was 1.03 per 1,000 Hospital deliveries; nil per
1,000 home deliveries, and 0.56 per 1,000 over all deliveries.
Of the cases treated to a conclusion at the Post-Natal Clinic
during 1946, 96.2 per cent. were classified as "Health Unimpaired."
This signifies that anatomically and functionally their
condition was the same as before their pregnancies. The corresponding
figure for 1945 was 96.8.
The number of cases delivered of viable babies in Mayday
Hospital, with a nominal 68 beds, was 1,321. The number
delivered at St. Mary's Maternity Hospital, with 30 beds, was
669. The number of cases delivered by the Domiciliary Branch
of the Service (Municipal Midwives) was 1,610. Including 54
cases admitted after delivery, the total number of deliveries dealt
with by the Obstetric Service was 3,605. The total number of
infants born was 3,654.