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Richmond upon Thames 1969

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Richmond]

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Putative Fathers

Marital StatusAgesCountries of origin other than G.B.
Single5916 years3
Married2617 „3Eire12
Separated 418 „6W.Indies5
Unknown2119 „17Hungary2
20 „21U.S.A.1
Occupation21—30 yrs.38S. Africa1
Teachers231-50 „21Spain3
Salesmen14Unknown1Italy1
Air Force2Australia1
Students19Singapore1
Singers2
Builders3
Artist1
Factory and Manual Workers28
Office Workers35
Docker1
Stallholder1
Unknown2

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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