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East Ham 1941

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

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(c)Total number of children who first attended at the Centres
during the year and who, on the date of their first attendance,
were -
(i) under one year of age 801
(ii) between the ages of one and five years 390
(d)Total number of children under 5 years of age who attended
at the Centres during the year and who, at the end of the
year, were -
(i) under one year of age 624
(ii) over one year of age 1,347
ANTE-NATAL AND POST-NATAL SERVICES.
Ante-Natal Post-Natal.
(a) Ante-natal and Post-natal Clinics (whether hold
at Infant Welfare Centres or at other premises)
(i) Number of Clinics provided and maintained
by the Council 2 -
(ii) Number of those Clinics open at 31st
December, 1942 2 —
(ill) Total number women who attended at the
Clinics during the year 784 20
(b) Total number of expectant mothers ante-natally
examined and of cases post-natally examined
during the year, under arrangements made by the
Council with private medical practitioners,
excluding cases included lander 5 (a) (iii) - -
SUPPLY OF MILK AND FOOD.
Total quantity of milk supplied during the year to
expectant mothers and nursing mothers and young children:-
Liquid Gallons. Dried Pounds.
(i) by the Council - 7,066
(ii) by Voluntary Associations operating in the
area of the Council
Totals: - 7,066
Cases of Ophthalmia Do-rum notified during the
year in which
(a) Vision was unimpaired 4
(b) „ „ impaired -
(c) the patient was, still under treatment at the end
(e ) the patient died -
(f) the patient removed from the district -
(g) classification under the above heads cannot be
made (details of these cases should be attached) -
Total: 4
22.