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Bethnal Green 1922
Report on the health of the Borough of Bethnal Green during the year 1922
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SUMMARY OF VISITS PAID BY HEALTH VISITORS.
| Births (first visits) | 3,027 |
| Births (re-visits) | 11,836 |
| Visits to mothers | 1,775 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 234 |
| Puerperal Fever | 25 |
| Measles | 1,326 |
| School Complaints | 421 |
| Special Matters | 236 |
| Futile Visits | 2,196 |
| Tuberculosis | 3,358 |
| Milk Investigations | 928 |
| Total visits paid | 25,362 |
NURSING ASSISTANCE.
Up to the limits permissible by law, a very complete
scheme of home nursing is now in operation.
Such nursing is carried out by the mediation of a
voluntary organisation, the Shoreditch and Bethnal
Green Nursing Association. For each visit a charge
of tenpence is made to the Council by the Association.
As regards children under the age of five years, the
Ministry of Health have sanctioned expenditure on
the nursing of all sick cases, but grant is only paid by
the Ministry in respect of certain specified conditions,
e.g., Measles, Whooping Cough, Diarrhoea, Ophthalmia
Neonatorum and Poliomyelitis, which come within
the Council's Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme.
During the year 220 children under the age of 5
were nursed, a total of 2,650 visits being made at a
cost of £110 8s. 4d. Of this expenditure £61 16s. 8d.
was expenditure under the Maternity and Child
Welfare Scheme.
Fifty-one mothers received 538 visits for nursing
in connection with conditions incidental to childbearing,
the cost being £22 8s. 4d.
Eighty-seven adults and children over 5 received
555 visits for nursing at a cost of £23 2s. 6d.