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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

Brentford and Chiswick 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]

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23
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.

Table:

Dental3Sent to Dental Clinic.
General debility and anaemia5Treated in Clinic.
Subinvolution14Treated in Clinic.
Ovaritis3Treated in Clinic.
Albuminuria2Treated in Clinic.
Retroflexion3Treated in Clinic.
Cystitis4Treated in Clinic.
Torn Perinaeum2One sent to Hospital
Leueorrhoea5Treated in Clinic.
Breast Abcess1Treated in Clinic.
Venus Thrombosis ...1Treated in Clinic.
Haemorrhoids2Treated in Clinic.
Heart Disease1Sent to Hospital.

Table:

Expectant ] MothersNursing MothersChildren under 5 vrsExpectant MothersExpectant MothersNursing MothersI Children | under 5 yrs j
Free, or at less than cost price in necessitous casesYesYesYesNoYesYesYes
At cost price, in other cases {e.g. sale of dried milk at Centres)YesYesYesNoYesYesYes

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*Cod Liver Oil and Malt, Virol, Bemax, etc.