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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Hounslow 1966

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hounslow]

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Table: Table 15 Ante-natal and post-natal clinics

Table 15 Ante-natal and post-natal clinics

Number of Clinics provided at end of 19667
Number of sessions held by Medical Officers333
by Midwives117
Total450
Number of women who attended in 1966
Ante-natal583
Post-natal112
Total number of attendances made by women shown above
Ante-natal2534
Post-natal115

Table: Table 16 Ante-natal mothercraft and relaxation classes

Table 16 Ante-natal mothercraft and relaxation classes

Number of women who attended during 1966 Institutionally booked343
Domiciliary booked60
Total403
Total number of attendances during 19662186

Table: Table 17 Care of premature infantsNumber of premature babies born alive to mothers normally resident in the Borough, but excluding babies born in maternity homes or hospitals in the National Health Service

Table 17 Care of premature infants

Number of premature babies born alive to mothers normally resident in the Borough, but excluding babies born in maternity homes or hospitals in the National Health Service

Born at home or in a private nursing homeBorn at home or in a private nursing home and nursed entirely at home, or in a private nursing home
number borndied during first 24 hourssurvived to end of 28 days
1515-15

Table: Table 18 Child welfare centres

Table 18 Child welfare centres

Number of centres in use at end of 1966*11
Number of Child Welfare Sessions held by Medical officers1315
Health visitors54
Hospital medical staff51
Total1420
Number of children who attended during the year and who were born in
19663220
19652892
1961-19642601
Total8713
Number of attendances made by children shown above56580
* The number of centres includes one mobile unit fully staffed by the Council, and a clinic held at Queen Charlotte's Hospital at which the Council provides a health visitor only.

Table: Table 19 Day nurseries provided by the Borough Council as at 31 st December 1966

Table 19 Day nurseries provided by the Borough Council as at 31 st December 1966

Number3
Number of approved places126
Number of children on register at end of year
Age under 2 years39
Age 2-5 years100
Average daily attendance during the year*
Age under 2 years27
Age 2-5 years78
* These are arithmetical averages which reflect absences due to infectious and other illness, and also the postponement of new admissions during outbreaks of infectious illness.