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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

Carshalton 1945

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Carshalton]

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born in the St: Helier County Hospital, and closely co-ordinated
arrangements exist between the hospital maternity services and the
Council's clinics.
The new babies under one year attending the Infant Welfare
Clinics also established a new record. The number at 731 represents
90 per cent, of the notified live births, and compares with the previous
highest percentage of 86 in 1941.

Table: TABLE 10.ATTENDANCES AT MATERNITY CLINICS—1945.

TABLE 10.

ATTENDANCES AT MATERNITY CLINICS—1945.

CENTRE.No. on Register.Attendances.Sessions.Average attendance per Session.
*Primary.Total.
Rochester Road.
Ante-Natal163143601
Post-Natal196194912.7
Individuals169149620
Wrythe Lane Hall.
Ante-Natal3372781323
Post-Natal172169613.9
Individuals3392801339
St. Helier.
Ante-Natal8732
Post-Natal———211.5
Individuals8732
Stanley Road.
Ante-Natal9674340
Post-Natal16420507.2
Individuals10078360
The Mount.
Ante-Natal161242
Post-Natal313222.0
Individuals171345
All Centres.
.Ante-Natal6205142338
Post-Natal55135863810.0
Individuals6335272396

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* Primary attendance's the first attendance of a woman in relation to the
pregnancy under supervision.
A further 60 primary attendances were made by Carshalton mothers
to the St. Helier Hospital Ante-Natal Clinic.
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