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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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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