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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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| Brentford F P A . clinic | Hounslow F P A. clinic (contde) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 1967 | 1966* | 1968 | 1967 | 1966 | |||
| Number of individual | Other (including consultations) | 36 | 12 | |||||
| patients | 552 | 520 | 494 | Cytological smears taken | 1,319 | 1 010 | 1 .051 | |
| New patients | 230 | 201 | 243 | TotaI sessions held | 194 | 193 | 137 | |
| Oral contraception | 149 | 118 | 162 | |||||
| Cap | 46 | 71 | 133 | By 1st January 1969 the borough will be implementing freely the National Health Service (Family Planning) Act 1967 and the Family Planning Association has agreed to act as the council's agents | ||||
| Other (including consultations) | 20 | 8 | ||||||
| Cytology only | 2 | 4 | - | |||||
| Cytological smears taken | 226 | 158 | 231 | |||||
| Total sessions held | 73 | 73 | 69 | Under agreement with the association, medical examination and advice will be given free to borough residents of whatever marital status and free con traceptive appliances and supplies will be given for all medically referred cases The definition of medical cases is to be as wide as possible and the World Health Organisation's definition of health as being not merely the absence of disease but a state of complete physical mental and social well-being will be used | ||||
| * Including transfers and change of method | ||||||||
| Feltham F P A clinic | ||||||||
| Number of individual | ||||||||
| patients | 838 | 664 | 984 | |||||
| New patients | 326 | 231 | 322 | |||||
| Oral contraception | 225 | 150 | 184 | In non-medical (social) cases a charge will be made for the appliances and substances where the patient is able to pay. | ||||
| Cap | 30 | 52 | 110 | |||||
| Other (including consultations) | 17 | 29 | _ | |||||
| The extension of the family planning services in the borough will be publicised and medical and nursing staff have been asked to re-double their efforts to reach the women who need the service most. | ||||||||
| Cytological smears taken | 100 | 289 | 411 | |||||
| Total sessions held | 99 | 98 | 99 | |||||
| Heston F.P.A clinic | ||||||||
| Circular 42/68 issued by the Department of Health and Social Security drew attention to the provisions of the Poisons (No* 2) Rules 1968 concerning the prescription, labelling, storage and inspection of oral contraceptives. The local branch of the Family Planning Association confirmed that their arrangements met the requirements of these provisions | ||||||||
| Number of individual patients | 404 | 190 | ||||||
| New patients | 332 | 116 | ||||||
| Oral contraception | 195 | 82 | ||||||
| Cap | 26 | 15 | ||||||
| Cytology only | 1 | 8 | ||||||
| Other (including consultations) | 10 | 11 | ||||||
| Cytological smears taken | 169 | 91 | ||||||
| Total sessions held | 81 | 35 | ||||||
| Hounslow F.P A. clinic | ||||||||
| Number of individual patients | 2,910 | 2,695 2 | ,382 | |||||
| New patients | 1,131 | 897 1 | .043 | |||||
| Oral contraception | 672 | 494 | 453 | |||||
| Cap | 123 | 231 | 298 | |||||
| Intra uterine contraception | 147 | 140 | 322 | |||||
| Marriage problems | 22 | 20 | 18 | |||||