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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 1970
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hounslow]
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| Number of Clinics provided at end of 1970 (a) | 7 |
| Number of sessions held by Medical Officers | 181 |
| Midwives | 159 |
| Total | 340 |
| Number of women who attended in 1970 (b) | |
| Ante natal | 306 |
| Post natal | 49 |
| Total number of attendances by women | |
| shown above Ante natal | 1213 |
| Post natal | 67 |
| Number of women who attended during 1970 | |
| institutionally booked | 472 |
| Domiciliary booked | 76 |
| Total | 548 |
| Total number of attendances during 1970 | 2318 |
(a) Includes sessions staffed by obstetricians
employed by Queen Chalotte's hospital,
(b) Excludes women referred by Queen Charlotte s
hospital.
(a) The number of clinics includes one mobile
unit fully staffed by the counciI, and a clinic
held at Queen Charlotte s Hospital at which
the council provides a health visitor only.
| 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 | |
| 10 | number born | died survived during to end of first 28 days 24 hours |
| 10 | 10 | |
| Number of clinics in use at end of 1970 (a) | 13 |
| Number of child health sessions held by Medical officers | 1172 |
| Health visitors | 252 |
| Hospital medical staff | 51 |
| Total | 1475 |
| Number of children who attended during the year and who were born in | |
| 1970 | 2821 |
| 1969 | 2527 |
| 1965-68 | 2582 |
| Total | 7930 |
| Number of attendances made by children shown above | 42404 |
| Number | 3 |
| Number of approved places | 126 |
| Number of children on register at end of year Age under 2 years | 33 |
| Age 2 - 5 years | 95 |
| Average daily attendance during the year (a) | |
| Age under 2 years | 26 |
| Age 2 5 years | 79 |
(a) These are arithmetical averages which
reflect absencesdue to infectious and other
illness, and also the postponement of new
admissions during outbreaks of infectious
illness.
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