[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southall].

  • Southall (London, England). Borough Council.
Date:
[1941?]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southall]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Post-Natal and Birth Control Clinic. Table No. 15. Number of sessions held: 22 Number of attendances:— Post-Natal. Birth Control. First Visits 43 17 Re-attendances 30 135 Ante-Natal Clinics. Sessions:— Manor House, Tuesday, 2 p.m.-4 p.m., Thursday, 10 a.m.-12 noon. Branch Centre, Tuesdays and Fridays, 10 a.m.-12 noon. The arrangements detailed in the report for 1934 were unaltered during 1940. The number of new patients seen at the ante-natal clinics during the year was 433, and the total number of attendances was 2,469. 422 cases were completed during the year, and the attendances in respect of these v were as follows:— No. of Cases. One attendance 34 Two attendances 35 Three attendances 38 Four attendances 54 Five attendances 55 Six or more attendances 206 The following table gives the figures for the last eight years and the proportion of new cases to re-visits. Table No. 16. First visits Re-visits Average num ber of re-visits per patient Total number of births in the District Percentage of new cases to total births 1933 264 782 296 734 35.9 1934 244 518 212 780 31.3 1935 265 867 327 835 31.7 1936 300 998 333 827 36.3 1937 407 1333 327 848 47.9 1938 531 2157 406 856 62.03 1939 506 2109 453 824 61.42 1940 433 2036 5.70 732 59.16 Of the 2,469 total attendances, 1,458 occurred at the Manor House centre and 1,011 at the Branch centre. 17