[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Penge] page 4

Penge 1944

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Penge]

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Table: Night Nursery (6 nights per week).

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Night Nursery (6 nights per week).

	0-2 years.	2-5 years .	Total at tendances.	Average nightly attendance.
Opened 269 nights	1012	568	1580	5.87

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Sessions for the rouutine medical inspection of the children
were held fortnightly.
Maternity Hospital.
During the year, 84 Penge cases were admitted to the Penge and
Beckenham Joint Maternity Hospital, Stone Park Avenue, Beckenham.
The Hospital was closed between the 1st September and the 15th
December, the staff being evacuated to North Wales between those
dates.

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

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

Year	Total cases admitted.	Penge cases.	Beckenham cases.	Other cases.
1940	405	102	303	-
1941	310	79	228	3
1942	570	119	447	4
1943	571	118	453	-
1944	373	84	277	12

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The average period spent in the hospital during the year by each
patient was 14.1 days.
Maternity cases sent to the County Hospital, Parnborough, Kent,
through the Council's Ante-Natal Clinic totalled 47 and 39 patients
were evacuated under the London County Council's scheme for
Expectant Mothers.

Table: Health Visiting.Three Health Visitors and School Nurses were employed and the following shows the number of visits paid, in connection with maternity and child welfare and tuberculosis.

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Health Visiting.

Three Health Visitors and School Nurses were employed and the following shows the number of visits paid, in connection with maternity and child welfare and tuberculosis.

First visits to infants under one year	327
Subsequent visits to infants under one year.	1,696
Visits to children between the ages of 1 and 5 years	2,445
Visits to expectant mothers	500
Visits to post-natal mothers	156
Visits to tuberculosis cases	347
Visits to foster children	96
Visits re Diphtheria Immunisation	351
Visits re Scabies	219
Measles	10
Whooping Cough	42
Miscellsneous visits	328
	6,517

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Penge 1944

Table: Night Nursery (6 nights per week).

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

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Table: Health Visiting.Three Health Visitors and School Nurses were employed and the following shows the number of visits paid, in connection with maternity and child welfare and tuberculosis.

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