Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Haringey]
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1972/1973 | 1968/1973 | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
General Practitioners | 4 | 14 | ||
District Midwife | 2 | 3 | ||
Probation Officer | 1 | 3 | ||
Health Visitor—Islington | 1 | 1 | ||
Barnet Domiciliary | 1 | 5 | ||
Enfield Domiciliary | 1 | 0 | ||
Family Planning Clinic | 1 | 4 | ||
Self referral | 37 | 72 | 54 | 203 |
205 | 759 | |||
NSPCC | 0 | 1 | ||
205 | 760 |
Choice of method of different nationalities
Sterilisation | OC | IUD | Sheath | Cap | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Male | Female | |||||
United Kingdom | 67 | 42 | 105 | 35 | 18 | 1 |
West Indian | 53 | 63 | 64 | 39 | 3 | |
Irish | 7 | 7 | 12 | 15 | 15 | — |
Greek Cypriot | — | 1 | 5 | 5 | — | |
Turkish Cypriot | — | — | 3 | 1 | — | |
Italian | — | |||||
Nigerian | — | — | 3 | — | ||
Chinese | — | — | — | — | — | 1 |
Iraqii | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Ghanian | — | — | — | — | — | |
Indian | 1 | 3 | 2 | |||
85 | 107 | 191 | 132 | 84 | 7 |
Failure to take advice=5 (1972/1973)
Three mentioned in the last report as failures ended up accepting birth control, one being an unmarried mother
with 7 children.
Characteristics of 5 'failures'
2 English (one had 4 children
one had 8, and felt birth control was 'against nature')
2 West Indians—unmarried mothers with one child each
1 Irish with 5 children
The 5 women had a total of 19 children.
Characteristics of those sterilised for year 1972/1973—this includes those referred to the service in previous
years who chose to be sterilised in 1972/1973.
Female=30
Nationality | Ages | ||
---|---|---|---|
English | 14 | 21-25 | 10 |
West Indian | 11 | 26-30 | 12 |
Irish | 31+ | ||
Indian | |||
Italian |