Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Waltham Forest]
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Child Welfare Clinic Attendances
ASSEMBLY HAUL | DAWLISH ROAD | EMMANUEL HALL | HATCH LANE | LEYTON GREEN | LOW HALL L AN E | MARMION AVENUE | PARK HOUSE | PRIORY COURT | ST. FRANCIS HALL | SILVERDALE ROAD | WEST AVENUE | WINCHESTER ROAD | "BROOKSCROFT" (VOLUNTARY) | TOTAL FOR YEAR-ALL CLINICS | |
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Children attending for the first time in 1966 who were born in 1961 | ½ | 98 | 2 | 11 | 23 | 24 | 14 | 13 | 13 | - | 1 | 13 | 4 | 23 | 232 |
1962 | 10 | 163 | 5 | 12 | 58 | 71 | 70 | 54 | 26 | - | 4 | 22 | 17 | 37 | 549 |
1963 | 48 | 210 | 6 | 40 | 111 | 115 | 48 | 66 | 56 | 18 | 12 | 70 | 38 | 68 | 906 |
1964 | 126 | 302 | 8 | 54 | 160 | 219 | 140 | 171 | 85 | 70 | 29 | 221 | 78 | 156 | 1,819 |
1965 | 298 | 195 | 7 | 114 | 327 | 280 | 314 | 364 | 262 | 123 | 128 | 350 | 130 | 330 | 3,222 |
1966 | 144 | 479 | 70 | 87 | 352 | 338 | 261 | 480 | 320 | 103 | 116 | 346 | 105 | 224 | 3,425 |
Total attendances | 5,066 | 8,016 | 1,970 | 2,270 | 6,522 | 5,917 | 6,398 | 7,359 | 5,860 | 1,723 | 2,435 | 5,972 | 2,908 | 6,507 | 68,923 |
Attendances of children seen by Medical Officer | 519 | 2,842 | 31 | 576 | 1,529 | 2,328 | 805 | 1,989 | 2,043 | 126 | 949 | 2,257 | 742 | 764 | 17,500 |
No. of children referred elsewhere | 17 | 157 | 2 | - | 124 | 12 | 28 | 134 | 58 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 561 |
No. of sessions | |||||||||||||||
(a) Medical Officers | 29 | 179 | 3 | - | 81 | 113 | 29 | 116 | 149 | 8 | 93 | 146 | 50 | - | 996 |
(b) Sessional G.P.'s | - | 15 | 1 | 53 | 79 | 36 | 28 | 51 | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | 3 | 101 | 372 |
(c) Health Visitors | 75 | 10 | 51 | - | 6 | - | 54 | 16 | - | 46 | 33 | - | - | 2 | 293 |