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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 1969
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hounslow]
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| Number of clinics provided at end of 1969 | 7 |
| Number of sessions held by Medical Officers (a) | 218 |
| Number of sessions held by midwives | 145 |
| Total | 363 |
| Number of women who attended in 1969 (b) | |
| Ante-natal | 395 |
| Post-natal | 57 |
| Total number of attendances by women | |
| shown above | |
| Ante-natal | 1415 |
| Post-natal | 61 |
(a) Includes sessions staffed by obstetricians
employed by Queen Charlotte's Hospital
(b) Excludes women referred by Queen
Charlotte s Hospital
| Number of women who attended during 1969 | |
| Institutionally booked | 502 |
| Domiciliary booked | 68 |
| Total | 570 |
| Total number of attendances during 1969 | 2234 |
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 home | Born at home or in a private nursing home and nursed entirely at home, or in a private nursing home | ||
| number born | died during first 24 hours | survive to end of 28 days | |
| 14 | 14 | - | 14 |
| Number of centres in use at end of 1969* | 12 |
| Number of child health sessions held by | |
| medical officers | 1225 |
| Health visitors | 177 |
| Hospital medical staff | 52 |
| Total | 1454 |
| Number of children who attended during | |
| the year and who were born in 1969 | 2972 |
| 1968 | 2495 |
| 1964-67 | 2703 |
| Total | 8170 |
| Number of attendances made by children | |
| shown above | 45531 |
* 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.
| Number | 3 |
| Number of approved places | 136 |
| Number of children on register at end of year | |
| Age under 2 years | 38 |
| Age 2-5 years | |
| Average daily attendance during the year* | |
| Age under 2 years | 30 |
| Age 2-5 years | 83 |
* 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.
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