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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

East Ham 1927

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]

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Table: Visits of Health Visitors to the homes of expectant mothers :—

Visits of Health Visitors to the homes of expectant mothers :—

First Visits170
Subsequent Visits61
Total231

Table: Number of Ante-natal cases attending the Clinic :—

Number of Ante-natal cases attending the Clinic :—

First Visits208
Subsequent Visits147
Total355

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Mothers in East Ham who are under the care of the Nurses
of the Maternity Charity and District Nurses' Home, Plaistow, or
any of its branches, or of Queen Mary's Hospital, Stratford, attend
the Ante-natal Clinics in connection with those Hospitals. No
cases already under the care of private doctors are examined at
the White House Clinic, unless such patients bring to the Medical
Officer of the Clinic letters from their doctors requesting examination
for purposes of consultation.
Maternity Accommodation.
Under the provisions of the Maternity and Child Welfare Act,
1918, empowering Local Authorities to make arrangements for
the institutional treatment of complicated midwifery cases, and for
women whose homes are unsuitable for their being confined in
them, the East Ham Borough Council has an arrangement (at the
cost of the Council), for the accommodation of necessitous cases
requiring in-patient treatment, at Queen Mary's Hospital, Stratford,
and at the Maternity Charity and District Nurses' Home,
Plaistow.
During 1927, five cases thus provided for were confined in
Queen Mary's Hospital.