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Tottenham 1950

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]

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APPENDIX
A National Health Service Act, 1946.
Part III Services.
Care of Mothers and Young Children.
Notification of Births
(a) Live births:- (a) Domiciliary 862
(b) Hospitals or Nursing
Home 2,342
Stillbirths:- (a) Domiciliary 5
(b) Hospitals or Nursing
Home 52
Total 3,261
(These are net figures allowing for transferable births)
(b) Death ascribed to Pregnancy or Childbirths
Number of women attended in area at home or
in nursing homes where deaths were ascribed
to pregnancy or childbirth Nil
Total number of maternal deaths 2
(includes women admitted direct to hospital)
Care of Mothers
Ante-natal
Clinics
No. of
sessions
held
No. of New
Cases
Total No. of
attendances
Average attendance per seeeion
A.N.
P.N.
A.N.
P.N.
9
1.082
2.594
1.303
19.006
1.331
18.7
(18.67)
Separate Post-Natal Clinics are not held.
Other Women's
Clinics
No. of
sessions
held
No. of
new
Cases
Total No.
of
attendances
Average
attendance
per session
Midwives'
Clinics
257
26
2.306
8.9