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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

Penge 1942

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Penge]

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Table: There was a marked increase in the attendances at the Centre during the year, and the figures for 1941 and 1942 are as follows:-

There was a marked increase in the attendances at the Centre during the year, and the figures for 1941 and 1942 are as follows:-

Medical Officer's Consultations.19411942
Infants1,1701,379
Nursing Mothers265361
Ante-Natal465730
Post-Natal24 1,9241092,579

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Health Visitors' Consultations.
Children 6,394
Weighing of children 5,708
Nursing Mothers 1,616
Expectant Mothers 441
Test feeds 116
Scabies 133
Total attendance of children at the Centre 4,988 6.394
Individual children who attended 617 783
Average weekly attendance of children 95,9 122.9
Total attendance of Nursing Mothers 977 1.616
Individual Nursing Mothers who attended 181 256
Average weekly attendance of Nursing Mothers 18.8 31.0
Total attendance of Expectant Mothers 465 730
Individual Expectant Mothers who attended 193 255
Average weekly attendance of Expectant Mothers 11.6 14.0
Total attendance of Post-Natal Mothers 24 109
Individual Fost-Natal Mothers who attended - 99
Average weekly attendance of Post-Natal Mothers 0.6 2.1
Dried milk and other foods for mothers and children are sold
at cost price and during 1942 the receipts totalled £546.

Table: Day Nursery.On the 24th August, 1942, a War-time Day Nursery was opened *9 218, Anerley Road, with accommodation for 50 children between the ages of 0 and 5 years. The attendances up to the 31st December, 1942, were as follows:-

Day Nursery.

On the 24th August, 1942, a War-time Day Nursery was opened *9 218, Anerley Road, with accommodation for 50 children between the ages of 0 and 5 years. The attendances up to the 31st December, 1942, were as follows:-

Total attendances.Average daily attendances.
0-2 years165915
2-5 years318229
Totals484144

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HOSPITALS.
Arrangements were made early In 1942 for the treatment of
cases of Typhus Fever in the Croydon Borough Isolation Hospital,
Cases admitted to the County Hospital, Parnborough, Kent, from
this district number 236 compared with 410 during the year 1941,
'Maternity Home.
During the year 119 Penge cases were admitted to the Penge and
Beckenham Joint Maternity Home, Stone Park Avenue, Beckenham.

Table: The following table gives the number of mothers admitted annually for the last five years:-

The following table gives the number of mothers admitted annually for the last five years:-

Year.Total cases admit ted.Penge cases.Beckenham cases.Other cases.
193833391242
193924648198mm
1940405102303-
1941310792283
19425701194474

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