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Hounslow 1967

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hounslow]

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Table 15 Ante-natal and post-natal clinics

Number of Clinics provided at end of 19677
Number of sessions held by Medical Officers245
Number of sessions held by Mid wives138
Total383
Number of women who attended in 1967
Ante-natal615
Post-natal52
Total number of attendances by women shown above
Ante-natal2076
Post-natal72

Table 16 Ante-natal mothercraft and relaxation classes

Number of women who attended during 1967
Institutionally booked608
Domiciliary booked205
Total813
Total number of attendances during 19672675

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
1414-14

Table 18 Child welfare centres

Number of centres in use at end of 1967*12
Number of Child Welfare Sessions held by
Medical officers1310
Health visitors68
Hospital medical staff51
Total1429
Number of children who attended during the
year and who were born in
19673086
19662940
1962-19652664
Total8690
Number of attendances made by children shown above51402

* 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 19 Day nurseries provided by the Borough Council as at 31st December 1967

Number3
Number of approved places136
Number of children on register at end of year
Age under 2 years36
Age 2-5 years106
Average daily attendance during the year*
Age under 2 years31
Age 2-5 years80

* 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.
103