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 Brentford and Chiswick]
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Post-natal Clinics.
These are also held once weekly in each district, at the end
of the Ante-natal Session. All mothers attending the Antenatal
Clinics are invited to these Clinics after their confinements,
but only a small percentage attends. During the year 38
mothers made 86 attendances, or 4.6 per cent, of the notified
births.
Dental | 3 | Sent to Dental Clinic. |
General debility and anaemia | 5 | Treated in Clinic. |
Subinvolution | 14 | Treated in Clinic. |
Ovaritis | 3 | Treated in Clinic. |
Albuminuria | 2 | Treated in Clinic. |
Retroflexion | 3 | Treated in Clinic. |
Cystitis | 4 | Treated in Clinic. |
Torn Perinaeum | 2 | One sent to Hospital |
Leueorrhoea | 5 | Treated in Clinic. |
Breast Abcess | 1 | Treated in Clinic. |
Venus Thrombosis ... | 1 | Treated in Clinic. |
Haemorrhoids | 2 | Treated in Clinic. |
Heart Disease | 1 | Sent to Hospital. |
Expectant ] Mothers | Nursing Mothers | Children under 5 vrs | Expectant Mothers | Expectant Mothers | Nursing Mothers | I Children | under 5 yrs j | |||
Free, or at less than cost price in necessitous cases | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
At cost price, in other cases {e.g. sale of dried milk at Centres) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
*Cod Liver Oil and Malt, Virol, Bemax, etc.