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PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICES
I am indebted to Dr.A.L.Thrower, Divisional Medical Officer, London
County Council, for the following information relating to the work in 1963
of the personal health services administered in the Borough by the County
Council:
1. Statistics
Infant Welfare Centres
Total number of children who attended and who were born in -
1963 1,257
1962 - under 1 979
1962 - over 1 396
1958-1961 836
Infant Welfare Sessions:- Total attendances 19,416
Total medically examined 10,591
Toddlers Sessions:- Total attendances 687
Total medically examined 654.
Ante- and Post-Natal Clinics
Total attendances Nil
(Now dealt with by General Practitioner obstetricians)
Health Visiting
Number of children visited who were born in - 1963 1,933
1962 2,196
1958-1961 4,221
Number of persons aged 65 and over who were visited 112
Number of mentally disordered persons visited 56
Number of persons visited who were discharged from
hospitals (other than mental hospitals) 35
Number of tuberculous households visited 97
Number of infectious households visited (other than T.B.) 73
Total effective visits 19,643
Total unsuccessful visits 4,503
Child Minders (daily guardians)
Number of child minders registered - Voluntary 4
Statutory 3
Number of children being minded - by Voluntary minders
by Statutory minders 7
Immunisation and Vaccination
For details of immunisation and vaccination see pages 50 and 51.
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