[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Richmond] page 21

Richmond upon Thames 1968

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Richmond]

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The Mothers

Marital Status
Single	101	Domicile		Occupation
Divorced	5	In area	89	Office Workers	37
Separated	5	Outside area	26	Factory Workers	15
Married	4			Shop Assistants	7
		Religion		Domestic and Hotel Workers	9
		C. of E.	84
Education		R.C.	23	Hairdressers	10
Sec. Mod.	72	Free Church	7	Nurses and Midwives	11
Grammar	33	Humanist	1
Public	1			Students	6
Convent	3			Teachers	4
Training College	4			Actresses	2
				Housewives	2
University	2			Civil Servants	4
				Radiographer	1
				University Lecturer	1
				Porter	1
				School Girls	5
Ages			Countries of origin other than G.B.
15 years		3
16		4	Eire	18
17		7	W. Indies	2
18		14	Spain	1
19		18	France	1
20		14	Channel Isles	1
21-30 yrs.		51	S.Africa	1
31-37 „		4	Australia	1
			N. Zealand	1

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Putative Fathers

Marital Status		Ages		Countries of origin other than G.B.
Single	68	15 years	1	Countries of origin other than G.B.
Married	22	16 „	2	Eire	25
Separated	6	17 „	4	W. Indies	2
Unknown	19	18 „	3	Sweden	1
		19 „	2	Channel Isles	1
Occupation		20 „	19	S.Africa	1
Teachers	5	21-30 yrs.	52	Spain	1
Journalists	2	31-49 „	18	Turkey	1
Musicians	2	Unknown	14
Students	21
Waiters	3
Milkmen	2
Park-keeper	1
Factory and Manual Workers	39
Office Workers	34
Unknown	6

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Ways in which unsupported mothers have been helped.

By admission to working girls hostels in early pregnancy	21
By admission to maternity homes and hostels	44
By providing private accommodation	3
By reconciliation with parents or relatives	19
By private financial agreements or affiliation orders	10
By adoption through registered adoption agencies	31
By fostering arrangements and private nurseries	27
By temporary care provided by the Children's Department pending other arrangements	8
By satisfactory residential posts	3
By gifts of clothing, cots, prams	5
By arrangements made for residential care but later cancelled	10
By arrangements for the return of one girl and her baby to parents in Eire	1
By arrangements for one girl to return to her parents in Europe	1
By vacancies found in flatlet house but refused — one girl preferring a residential post and the other wishing to co-habit	2