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 Hounslow]
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Table 15 Ante-natal and post-natal clinics
Number of Clinics provided at end of 1968 | 7 |
Number of sessions held by Medical Officers | 256 |
Number of sessions held by Midwives | 143 |
Total | 399 |
Number of women who attended in 1968 | |
Ante-natal | 496 |
Post-natal | 46 |
Total number of attendances by women shown above | |
Ante-natal | 1557 |
Post-natal | 70 |
Table 16 Ante-natal mothercraft and relaxation classes
Number of women who attended during 1968 | |
Institutionally booked | 638 |
Domiciliary booked | 147 |
Total | 785 |
Total number of attendances during 1968 | 2458 |
Table 18 Child welfare centres
Number of centres in use at end of 1968* | 12 |
Number of Child Welfare Sessions held by Medical Officers | 1371 |
Health Visitors | 84 |
Hospital Medical Staff | 52 |
Total | 1507 |
Number of children who attended during the year and who were born in | |
1968 | 3059 |
1967 | 2849 |
1963-66 | 2713 |
Total | 8621 |
Number of attendances made by children shown above | 47244 |
*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 17 Care of premature infants
Born at home or in a private nursing home | Born at home or in a private nursing home and nursed entirely at home, or in a private nursing home |
number died survived born during to end of first 28 days 24 hours | |
9 | 9-9 |
Table 19 Day nurseries provided by the Borough Council as at 31st December 1968
Number | 3 |
Number of approved places | 136 |
Number of children on register at end of year | |
Age under 2 years | 34 |
Age 2-5 years | 102 |
Average daily attendance during the year* | |
Age under 2 years | 31 |
Age 2-5 years | 85 |
*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. |