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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 19&4of
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 1964 1,343
1963 1,161
1959-1962 964
Infant Welfare Sessions: Total attendances 22,34-6
Total medically examined 11,634
Toddlers Sessions: Total attendances 758
Total medically examined 715
Child Hinders (daily guardians)
Number of child minders registered at 31 Dec. 1964.
- Voluntary 3
- Statutory 4
Number of children being minded at 31 Dec. 1964
- by Voluntary minders 3
- by Statutory minders 9
Immunisation and Vaccination
For details of immunisation and vaccination see pages 40 and 42.
Home Helps Service
This service, covering the Boroughs of Bethnal Green, Poplar and
Stepney, is divided into three districts irrespective of borough boundaries,
and statistics for each separate borough are not available. However, the
numbers of cases in which help was provided in the 'southern' district
(which comprises the Borough of Stepney less the area east of the Canal
and two areas north of the east-west line - Whitechapel High Street,
Whitechapel Road and Mile End Road), are as follows:-
Maternity (including expectant mothers) - 13
Tuberculosis 12
Aged and infirm 845
Other cases 225
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