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PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICES
MATERNAL AND CHILD-CARE
General
Maternal and Child Care Services are operated in nine purposebuilt
Clinics, and five hired halls throughout the Borough.
Ante-Natal and Post-Natal Services
Six ante-natal Clinics are held each week at Clinics in the area,
at which an Assistant Medical Officer and a Health Visitor are in
attendance. At these ante-natal Clinics cases are booked for subsequent
hospital confinement. Post-natal sessions are also held on these
occasions.
In addition seven ante-natal sessions are held by midwives for
patients booked for domiciliary confinement.
Relaxation and mothercraft classes are held throughout the
Borough at which health education on a personal basis is carried out
by health visitors and midwives.
Attendances at the ante-natal clinics during the year were as
follows:—
Number of women who attended for ante-natal examination 427
Number of women who attended for post-natal examination 36
There were 334 midwives' clinic sessions at which 571 women
attended. The total number of attendances was 2,999.
Relaxation Classes
Ante-natal relaxation classes are held weekly by health visitors
and midwives at the following clinics: Amity Grove, Church Road,
Grand Drive, Middleton Road, Morden Road, Russell Road, Wide
Way.
The total number of attendances was 2,107.
Premature Infants
The total number of premature infants born in the area during
1966 was 198.
Nineteen premature infants died during 1966. This means that
9.6% of the 198 premature infants born during the year died within a
year. Only 1.0% of full-term babies died before reaching the age of
one year.
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