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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 1968

[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 19687
Number of sessions held by Medical Officers256
Number of sessions held by Midwives143
Total399
Number of women who attended in 1968
Ante-natal496
Post-natal46
Total number of attendances by women shown above
Ante-natal1557
Post-natal70

Table: Table 16 Ante-natal mothercraft and relaxation classes

Table 16 Ante-natal mothercraft and relaxation classes

Number of women who attended during 1968
Institutionally booked638
Domiciliary booked147
Total785
Total number of attendances during 19682458

Table: Table 18 Child welfare centres

Table 18 Child welfare centres

Number of centres in use at end of 1968*12
Number of Child Welfare Sessions held by Medical Officers1371
Health Visitors84
Hospital Medical Staff52
Total1507
Number of children who attended during the year and who were born in
19683059
19672849
1963-662713
Total8621
Number of attendances made by children shown above47244
*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 17 Care of premature infants

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 died survived born during to end of first 28 days 24 hours
99-9

Table: Table 19 Day nurseries provided by the Borough Council as at 31st December 1968

Table 19 Day nurseries provided by the Borough Council as at 31st December 1968

Number3
Number of approved places136
Number of children on register at end of year
Age under 2 years34
Age 2-5 years102
Average daily attendance during the year*
Age under 2 years31
Age 2-5 years85
*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.