[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hounslow] page 24

Hounslow 1972

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hounslow]

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Clinic statistics 1972

Clinic	New cases	Old cases	F P A transfers	Total attendances	Cervical cytology
Bedfont	267	675	74	2279	467
Brentford	188	399	24	1326	218
Chiswick	559	196	130	1845	654
Feltham	376	791	74	3101	579
Hanworth	157	217	59	522	70
Heston	519	699	89	3385	811
Hounslow	1170	2039	190	8382	2030
West Middlesex Hospital	269	337	95	1575	291

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Of the total of 3505 new cases it was possible to classify them according to age, source of referral, and social class as shown in the table below:—

	Bedfont	Brentford	Heston	Hanworth	West Middlesex Hospital	Feltham	Chiswick	Hounslow	Total
Source of referral:
Hospital	6	6	8	5	16	6	3	33	83
Local Authority	12	18	70	13	30	11	14	81	249
Friend	103	99	276	52	104	128	196	592	1550
Gen. Practitioner	40	35	83	16	39	53	53	174	493
Press	1	2	14	3	4	–	2	34	60
Radio and T. V.	1	—	—	1	—	–	–	1	3
F P A Publicity	104	28	68	67	76	178	291	255	1067
Age -20	18	26	63	28	42	55	93	210	535
20-24	58	55	180	48	90	133	254	344	1162
25-29	91	48	157	51	85	93	149	296	970
30-34	39	20	48	15	20	35	21	124	322
35 +	61	39	71	15	32	60	42	196	516
Occupation (Social class):
Professional	131	25	75	28	47	81	118	158	663
Intermediate	—	6	17	–	13	–	54	15	105
Skilled	56	46	125	48	55	120	218	370	1038
Semi-skilled	14	24	51	14	21	35	36	155	350
Unskilled	18	9	20	—	15	5	8	35	110
Students	4	5	23	4	28	10	40	67	181
Others	44	73	208	63	90	125	85	370	1058

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Domiciliary Family Planning Service

Major reasons for referral of new cases:
Impossible to attend clinics (mainly due to large families)	7
Health (mental or physical)	7
Poor social background	6
Persistent failure of appointments (associated with social problems)	2
Apathy or low intelligence	3
Total referred	25