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 Richmond]
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Putative Fathers
Marital Status | Ages | Countries of origin other than G.B. | |||
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Single | 59 | 16 years | 3 | ||
Married | 26 | 17 „ | 3 | Eire | 12 |
Separated 4 | 18 „ | 6 | W.Indies | 5 | |
Unknown | 21 | 19 „ | 17 | Hungary | 2 |
20 „ | 21 | U.S.A. | 1 | ||
Occupation | 21—30 yrs. | 38 | S. Africa | 1 | |
Teachers | 2 | 31-50 „ | 21 | Spain | 3 |
Salesmen | 14 | Unknown | 1 | Italy | 1 |
Air Force | 2 | Australia | 1 | ||
Students | 19 | Singapore | 1 | ||
Singers | 2 | ||||
Builders | 3 | ||||
Artist | 1 | ||||
Factory and Manual Workers | 28 | ||||
Office Workers | 35 | ||||
Docker | 1 | ||||
Stallholder | 1 | ||||
Unknown | 2 |
Ways in which unsupported mothers have been helped.
By admission to working girls hostels in early pregnancy 10
By admission to maternity homes and hostels 35
By providing private accommodation 4
By reconciliation with parents or relatives 12
By private financial agreements or affiliation orders 11
By adoption through registered adoption agencies 29
By fostering arrangements and private nurseries 26
By temporary care provided by the Children's Department pending
other arrangements 2
By satisfactory residential posts (2 girls had 2 jobs each during the year) 6
By gifts of clothing, cots, prams 10
By arrangements made for residential care but later cancelled 8
By arrangements for the return of one girl and her baby to parents
in Finland 1
By vacancies found in flatlet house 1
By re-housing by Housing Department 1
At the end of 1969 the mothers who decided to keep their babies were
living in the following way
Had returned to parents and relatives 33
Had married putative father 6
Had married other than putative father 1
Were co-habiting 10
Were living in lodgings or own home 11
Had accepted residential work 4
Mothers who parted with their babies or lost them
By adoption 29
Miscarriages 2
Terminated (those known) 7
Arrangements incomplete at end of year- 5
Cases who left district and whose decisions were not known- 2
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