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Penge 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Penge]
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District are fully alive to the importance of availing themselves
of the facilities for diagnosis provided by the County
Laboratory.
| Age Periods. | New Cases*. | Deaths. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | Non-Pul'ary | Pulmonary | Non-Pul'ary | |||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| 0 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | — | 5 | - | — | — | 2 | — |
| 5 | — | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | — | — |
| 10 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 |
| 15 | — | 3 | 1 | 3 | — | — | 1 | 1 |
| 20 | 2 | 3 | — | — | 3 | — | — | — |
| 25 | 5 | 6 | — | 1 | 2 | 1 | — | 1 |
| 35 | 3 | 3 | — | 1 | 2 | 2 | — | — |
| 45 | 5 | 1 | — | — | 2 | — | — | — |
| 55 | 5 | —— | — | — | 2 | — | — | 1 |
| 65 and upwards | 1 | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | — |
| Totals | 22 | 17 | 9 | 7 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
*In addition to primary notifications, all other new
cases coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health
are included in these figures, such as cases which have been
previously notified in other districts and transferred to Penge.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
Maternity and Child Welfare Centre.
Medical Officer's Consultations : Infants 788
Nursing Mothers 295
Ante-Natal 152
Total attendance of Children at the Centre 3,540
Individual children who attended 437
Average weekly attendance of children 70.8
Total attendance of nursing mothers 1,169
Individual nursing mothers who attended 182