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Hounslow 1969

[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 19697
Number of sessions held by Medical Officers (a)218
Number of sessions held by midwives145
Total363
Number of women who attended in 1969 (b)
Ante-natal395
Post-natal57
Total number of attendances by women
shown above
Ante-natal1415
Post-natal61

(a) Includes sessions staffed by obstetricians
employed by Queen Charlotte's Hospital
(b) Excludes women referred by Queen
Charlotte s Hospital

Table 16 Ante-natal mothercraft and relaxation classes

Number of women who attended during 1969
Institutionally booked502
Domiciliary booked68
Total570
Total number of attendances during 19692234

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 hourssurvive to end of 28 days
1414-14

Table 18 Child Health Clinics

Number of centres in use at end of 1969*12
Number of child health sessions held by
medical officers1225
Health visitors177
Hospital medical staff52
Total1454
Number of children who attended during
the year and who were born in 19692972
19682495
1964-672703
Total8170
Number of attendances made by children
shown above45531

* 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 1969

Number3
Number of approved places136
Number of children on register at end of year
Age under 2 years38
Age 2-5 years97
Average daily attendance during the year*
Age under 2 years30
Age 2-5 years83

* 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.
101