[Report 1915] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City.

  • Leeds City Council
Date:
1915
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Credit: [Report 1915] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    No. on Register at beginning of year. Registered during year. Live Births. On Register end of year. Total attend¬ ance of mothers. Ellerby Road . . 10 25 25 II 200 Burmantofts 18 24 32 9 159 West Street 12 26 30 8 133 Hunslet . . 10 23 26 6 182 York Road 14 27 28 14 146 Woodhouse 6 17 19 4 127 Holbeck . . 20 7 25 2 8l 90 149 185 54 1,028 These numbers are obviously small—239 mothers out of 9,990 births in the City during the year,—but they show that we have in each district in the City a nucleus round which an ante¬ natal organisation should easily be organised. It may not be necessary to have as many fully equipped centres with medical staff for ante-natal work as for infant care. Expectant mothers will not in most cases need to be seen by a doctor so often as an infant should, and may be expected therefore to go a longer distance to a clinic. I propose at the outset to develop only one of our infant welfare centres on each side of the town into an ante¬ natal clinic. For this purpose specially suitable premises will be needed, and some have already been found in a convenient site in Burmantofts Street for the East side. On the other side of the town one, or at most two, centres will be necessary and suitable premises for the purpose are being looked for. In this work I hope to obtain the co-operation of the Maternity Hospital.