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East Ham 1953
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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TABLE 29
ANTE-NATAL AND POST-NATAL CLINICS, 1953
| No. of clinics provided at end of year (whether held at Child Welfare Centres or other premises) | No. of sessions held at end of year per month at clinics | No. | of women In attendance | Total No. of attendances made during the year | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of women who attended during the year | No. of new cases included in previous column i.e. for A.N. clinics women who had not previously attended any clinic during current, pregnancy and for P.N. clinics women who had not previously attended any P.N. clinic after last confinement | ||||||
| Medical Officers Sessions | Midwives Sessions * | ||||||
| Medical officers Sessions | Mid-wives Sessions | ||||||
| Local Health Authority Clinics | |||||||
| Ante-natal clinics | 4 | 43 | — | 1,615 | l„134 | 7,776 | — |
| Post-natal clinics | — | — | — | 388† | 382† | 426† | — |
| Clinic belonging to other L.H.A.+ | |||||||
| Ante-natal clinics | 1 | 4 | — | 20 | 11 | 76 | — |
| Post-natal clinics | — | — | — | 5† | 5† | 6+ | — |
* i.e. Sessions where no Medical Officer is Present
+ By arrangements with L.C.C. at Fernhill treet Baths, North Woolwich, E.16.
† Post-natal patients seen at ante-natal clinics and these numbers are not Included In the ante-natal figures.
Note:- An additional clinic operating one session per week was opened at the Shrewsbury Road School on
10th July 1953
No ante-natal or post-natal examinations were carried out by General Practitioners at the mother's home or
the practloner's surgery under arrangements made with the Local Health Authority.