Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford

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Summary of Vital and Mortality Statiatics.

	1924.	1923.

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Table 1.

Year.	Estimated population.	Births.
Year.	Estimated population.	No.	Rate per 1000.

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Table II.

Year.	Estimated Population.	Deaths.
Year.	Estimated Population.	No.	Rate per 1000.

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Table III.

Ward.	Deaths.				Death rete per 1,000.
	Males.	Females.	Children under 1 year.	Total.	Death rete per 1,000.

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The proportion which the mortality at various ages bears to the total number of deaths during 1924 and the previous year is as follows:— Table IV.

		1923	1924

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The mortality amongst infants in the various wards is shown in the following table:— Table V.

Ward.		Births Registered	Deaths under 1 year of age.	Infantile mort ility per 1000 Births.

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Table VI. RATE PER 1000 BIRTHS.

	Diarrhœa and Enteritis under two years.	Total deaths under one year.

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Table VII. TABLE SHOWING THE NUMBER OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS IN THE BOROUGH DURING THE YEAR 1924.

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Table VIII. INFANTILE MORTALITY RATE FOR THE PAST TEN YEARS

Year.	Deaths under 1 year.	Infantile Mortality Rate.

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Table No. IX. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF DEPTFORD. VITAL STATISTICS OF WHOLE DISTRICT DURING 1924 AND PREVIOUS YEARS.

Year.	Population estimated to Middle of each year.	Births.			Total Deaths Registered in the District.		Transferable Deaths		Nett Deaths belonging to the District.
		Un-corrected Number.	Nett.				Transferable Deaths		Under 1 year of Age.		At all Ages.
							of Non-residents registered in the District-	of Residents not registered in the District.	Under 1 year of Age.		At all Ages.
					Number.	Rate.			Number.	Rate per 1.000 Nett Births.	Number.	Rate.
			Number.	Rate.	Number.	Rate.			Number.	Rate per 1.000 Nett Births.	Number.	Rate.
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13

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Table No. X. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF DEPTFORD. Causes of, and Ages at, Death during the Year 1924.

CAUSES OF DEATH.	Nett Deaths at the subjoined Ages of "Residents" whether occurring within or without the District.
CAUSES OF DEATH.	All Ages.	Under 1 year.	1 and under 2 years.	2 and under 5 years-	5 and under 15 years.	15 and under 25 years.	25 and under 45 years.	45 and under 65 years.	65 and under 75 years	75 and upwards.
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11

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Table No. XI. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF DEPTFORD. Infantile Mortality, 1924. Nett Deaths from stated causes at various Ages under 1 year of Age.

CAUSE OF DEATH.	Under 1 week.	1 to 2 weeks.	2 to 3 weeks.	3 to 4 weeks.	Total under 4 weeks.		4 weeks and under 3 months.	3 months and under 6 months.	6 months and under 9 months.	9 months and under 1-months.	Total Deaths under 1 year.

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Table No. XII. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF DEPTFORD. CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED DURING THE YEAR 1924.

Notifiable Disease	Number of cases notified.								Total cases notified in each Ward.						Total Cases Removed to Hospital.
	At all Ages	At Ages—Years							East Ward	North Ward	North-West Ward	South Ward	South-East Ward	South-W est Ward
	At all Ages	Under 1	1 to 5	5 to 15	15 to 25	25 to 45	45 to 65	65 and upwards	East Ward	North Ward	North-West Ward	South Ward	South-East Ward	South-W est Ward

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Table XIII. Deaths and Death Rates from Principal Infectious Diseases.

Year	Enteric Fever			Small Pox		Measles			Scarlet Fever			Whooping Cough			Diphtheria			Diarrncea and Enteritis (under 2 years)			Total
Year	No. of Deaths	Rate		No. of Deaths	Rate	N o. of Deaths	Rate		No. of Deaths	Rate		No. of Deaths	Rate		No. of Deaths	Rate		No. of Deaths	Rate		No. of Deaths	Rate

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Table XIV. Hospital Disposal of Notifiable Diseases during 1924.

DISEASE	Total Cases Notified	Cases admitted to Hospital.	Total Deaths.

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Table XV. clinics and treatment centres.

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Laboratory Work at Seaman's Hospital, Greenwich.

Material.	Total Specimens examined.	Number Positive.	Number Negative.

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Table XVI. Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1912 and Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations (No. 2), 1918. Summary of Notifications for the period from 30th December, 1923 to 3rd January, 1925.

Notifications on Form A.													Notifications on Form B.					Number of Notifications on Form C.
Age Periods.												Total Notifications on Form A.	Number of Primary Notifications.				Total Notifications on Form B.	Cases admitted to
0-1	1-5	5-10	10-15	15-20	20-25	25-35	35-45	45-55	55-65	65 and up	Total Primary Notifications.		Number of Primary Notifications.					Poor Law-Institutions.	Sanatoria.
0-1	1-5	5-10	10-15	15-20	20-25	25-35	35-45	45-55	55-65	65 and up	Total Primary Notifications.		Under 5	5-10	10-15	Total Primary Notifications,		Poor Law-Institutions.	Sanatoria.

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The notifications of non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis were as follows:—

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The notification according to wards was:—

	Pulmonary.	Non-Pulmonary.

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The following table gives the number of deaths and notification rate per 1000 for Pulmonary and non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis during 1924, and a comparison with the four previous years:—

Year.	Deaths. P.T.		Deaths. O.T.		Notifica tions P.T.		Notifica-tions O.T.		Popula-tion.	Total Deaths.	Total Rate	Total Notifi-cation.	Notification rate per 1000.

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Table XVII. Metropolitan Borough of Deptford. Return of work carried out in connection with the Tuberculosis Dispensary for the year 1924.

Number of			Under observation at the Dispensary on Jan. 1st pending diagnosis.	Examined for the first time during the year.	Total.	Found to be			Under observation at the Dispensary on Dec. 31, pending diagnosis.	Ceased attendance before completion of diagnosis.
						Suffering from Tuberculosis.		Not suffering from Tuber-culosis.
						Pulmonary.	Non-Pulmonary.	Not suffering from Tuber-culosis.

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The following table gives the number of cases thus removed from the current register:—

	Pulmonary Tuberculosis.	Other Tuberculosis.

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After the removal of the cases, the totals for the respective wards were:—

	Pulmonary Tuberculosis.	Other Tuberculosis.

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METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF DEPTFORD. ANNUAL REPORT OF SANITARY INSPECTORS FOR THE YEAR 1924. Table No. XVIII.

	Number of District.
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Totals

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ANNUAL REPORT OF SANITARY INSPECTORS FOR THE YEAR 1924—continued.

Table —continued.	Number of District.
Table —continued.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Totals

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ANNUAL REPORT OF SANITARY INSPECTORS FOR THE YEAR 1924 -continued.

Table —continued.	Number of District.
Table —continued.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Totals.

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House-to-house inspections were made in the following streets during the year 1924:— Inspector Simpson.—East Ward.

Street or Road.	Total premises inspected.	Number in which defects were found.

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Inspector Shelley—East Ward.

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Inspector Kemp—North-west and South-west Wards.

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Inspector Hewett—North Ward.

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Inspector Allam South and South east Wards.

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Inspector Yates—North and North-west Wards.

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Inspector Mayo—North-west Ward.

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Table XIX. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF DEPTFORD. PROCEEDINGS DURING 1924.

PREMISES.	NUMBER OF PLACES—				Number of inspections	Number of notices	Number of proceedings
PREMISES.	On register at end of 1923	Added 1924'	Re-moved 1924	On register at end of 1924	Number of inspections	Number of notices	Number of proceedings

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Table XX. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF DEPTFORD. PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT. TABULATION OF REPORT AS REQUIRED BY S. 131 OF THE FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1901. INSPECTION OF FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, AND WORKPLACES, during 1924.

Number of Places					Number of Prosecutions.
On Regis-ter at end of 1923	Added 1924.	Re-moved 1924.	On Register at end of 1924.		Number of Prosecutions.
			On Register at end of 1924.		Under Factory Acts.	Under Public Health Acts.
			Prem-ises.	Rooms	Under Factory Acts.	Under Public Health Acts.

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Table XXI. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF DEPTFORD. This Table is by request of the Secretary of State. Annual Report of Medical Officer of Health for the year 1924 On the Administration of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901 in connection with FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, LAUNDRIES, WORKPLACES, AND HOMEWORK. 1.—INSPECTION. Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances.

Premises.	Inspections.	Number of Written Notices.	Prosecutions.

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2 —DEFECTS FOUND.

PARTICULARS		Number of Defects.			Number of Prosecutions
PARTICULARS		Found.	Rem-edied.	Referred to H.M. Inspector.	Number of Prosecutions

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Table—continued. 3.—HOME WORK.

NATURE OF WORK.	OUTWORKERS' LISTS. SECTION 107									OUTWORK IN UNWHOLESOME PREMISES. SECTION 108			OUTWORK IN INFECTED PREMISES. SECTIONS 109, 110
	Lists received from Employers.						Notices served on Occupiers as to keeping or sending lists.	Prosecutions.		OUTWORK IN UNWHOLESOME PREMISES. SECTION 108			OUTWORK IN INFECTED PREMISES. SECTIONS 109, 110
	Twice in the year.			Once in the year.				Prosecutions.		Instances.	Notices served.	Prosecutions.	Instances.	Orders made (S. 110).	Prosecutions (Sections 109. 110)
	Lists.	Out--workers.		Lists.	Out-workers.			Failing to keep or permit inspection or lists.	Failing to send lists.
	Lists.	Con-tractors.	Work-men.	Lists.	Contractors.	Work- men.		Failing to keep or permit inspection or lists.	Failing to send lists.
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16

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Table—continued. 4 —REGISTERED WORKSHOPS.

Workshops on Register (s. 131) at the end of year.	Number.

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5.—OTHER MATTERS.

Class.		Number.

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Table XXII. Proceedings Taken in regard to Samples Purchased during the year 1924.

Sample No.	Article.	Particulars of Adulteration or Infringement.	Fine.		Costs.	Remarks.

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Table XXIII. Samples taken during 1924.

Articles.	N umber Genuine.	Number Adulter-ated.	Total.	Percentage of Adulter-ation.

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Table XXIV. SHOWING NUMBER OF ROOMS DISINFECTED AFTER THE FOLLOWING DISEASES.

1924 Date	* Small Pox.	Scarlet Fever.	Diphtheria.	Erysipelas.	Enteric Fever.	Pulmonary Tuberculosis.	Puerperal Fever,	Cancer.	Pneumonia.	Measles.	Requests.	Scabies.	Encephalitis Lethargica.	Senile Decay	Diarrhoea.

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Table XXV. SHOWING THE NUMBER OF PREMISES, ROOMS AND BEDDING DISINFECTED DURING THE YEAR 1924.

Date 1924	Premises.	Rooms.	Beds.	Pillows.	Bolsters.	Mattresses.	Sheets.	Blankets.	Odd articles	Articles destroyed.

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Summary.

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Bodies Received, etc.

Total.	Male.	Female.	Inquests.	Postmortems.	Under 1 year of age.	Un-known.	Deposited to await burial only.	Infectious.

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Summary of Visits paid by Health Visitors.

Ward (approximate)		E.	N.	N.W.	S. & S.E.	S.W.	Total.

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SUMMARY OF WORK OF HEALTH VISITORS.

	1st visits	Re-visits	Total

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Births Notified, Year 1924.

Ward.	Births Notified.			Alive.	Dead.	By whom Notified.
Ward.	Total.	Male.	\| Female	Alive.	Dead.	Parent.	Doctor.	Midwife	Other Person.

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Milk supplied to Necessitous Mothers and Children. During the year 8,380 applications were received and were dealt with as follows :—

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Dried Milk, Virol, &c. The following amounts of dried milk, &c., were distributed to the mothers attending the Infant Welfare Centres, during the year 1924. The previous year's figures are given for comparison.

	Year 1924	Year 1923

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NAPIER STREET CLINIC.

1924.	No. of times Clinic opened.	New Cases.				Total New Cases.	Total Old Cases.	Total New and Old Cases.	Consul-tations with Doctor.
1924.	No. of times Clinic opened.	Breast Fed.	Mixed.	Hand.	Ages 1—5.	Total New Cases.	Total Old Cases.	Total New and Old Cases.	Consul-tations with Doctor.

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ERLAM ROAD CLINIC.

1924.	No. of times Clinic opened.	Breast Fed.	New Cases.			Total New Cases.	Total Old Cases	Total New and Old Cases.	Consul-tations with Doctor.
1924.	No. of times Clinic opened.	Breast Fed.	Mixed.	Hand.	Ages 1—5	Total New Cases.	Total Old Cases	Total New and Old Cases.	Consul-tations with Doctor.

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GOLDSMITHS' COLLEGE CLINIC.

1924.	No. of times Clinic opened.	New Cases.				Total New Cases.	Total Old Cases.	Total New and Old Cases.	Consul-tations with Doctor.
1924.	No. of times Clinic opened.	Breast Fed	Mixed.	Hand.	Ages 1-5.	Total New Cases.	Total Old Cases.	Total New and Old Cases.	Consul-tations with Doctor.

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BESSON STREET CLINIC.

1924.	No. of times Clinic opened.	New Cases-				Total New Cases.	Total Old Cases.	Total New and Old Cases.	Consul-tations with Doctor.
1924.	No. of times Clinic opened.	Breast Fed.	Mixed.	Hand.	Ages 1—5.	Total New Cases.	Total Old Cases.	Total New and Old Cases.	Consul-tations with Doctor.

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GOSTERWOOD STREET CLINIC.

1924.	No. of times Clinic opened.	Breast Fed.	New Cases.			Total New Cases.	Total Old Cases.	Total New and Old Cases.	Consul-tations with Doctor.
1924.	No. of times Clinic opened.	Breast Fed.	Mixed.	Hand.	Ages 1-5.	Total New Cases.	Total Old Cases.	Total New and Old Cases.	Consul-tations with Doctor.

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HALES STREET CLINIC.

1924.	No. of times Clinic opened.	New Cases.				Total New Cases.	Total Old Cases.	Total New and Old Cases-	Consul-tations with Doctor.
1924.	No. of times Clinic opened.	Breast Fed.	Mixed.	Hand.	Ages 1—5.	Total New Cases.	Total Old Cases.	Total New and Old Cases-	Consul-tations with Doctor.

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Summary of Vital and Mortality Statiatics.

Table 1.

Table II.

Table III.

The proportion which the mortality at various ages bears to the total number of deaths during 1924 and the previous year is as follows:— Table IV.

The mortality amongst infants in the various wards is shown in the following table:— Table V.

Table VI. RATE PER 1000 BIRTHS.

Table VII. TABLE SHOWING THE NUMBER OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS IN THE BOROUGH DURING THE YEAR 1924.

Table VIII. INFANTILE MORTALITY RATE FOR THE PAST TEN YEARS

Table No. IX. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF DEPTFORD. VITAL STATISTICS OF WHOLE DISTRICT DURING 1924 AND PREVIOUS YEARS.

Table No. X. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF DEPTFORD. Causes of, and Ages at, Death during the Year 1924.

Table No. XI. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF DEPTFORD. Infantile Mortality, 1924. Nett Deaths from stated causes at various Ages under 1 year of Age.

Table No. XII. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF DEPTFORD. CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED DURING THE YEAR 1924.

Table XIII. Deaths and Death Rates from Principal Infectious Diseases.

Table XIV. Hospital Disposal of Notifiable Diseases during 1924.

Table XV. clinics and treatment centres.

Laboratory Work at Seaman's Hospital, Greenwich.

Table XVI. Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1912 and Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations (No. 2), 1918. Summary of Notifications for the period from 30th December, 1923 to 3rd January, 1925.

The notifications of non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis were as follows:—

The notification according to wards was:—

The following table gives the number of deaths and notification rate per 1000 for Pulmonary and non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis during 1924, and a comparison with the four previous years:—

Table XVII. Metropolitan Borough of Deptford. Return of work carried out in connection with the Tuberculosis Dispensary for the year 1924.

The following table gives the number of cases thus removed from the current register:—

After the removal of the cases, the totals for the respective wards were:—

METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF DEPTFORD. ANNUAL REPORT OF SANITARY INSPECTORS FOR THE YEAR 1924. Table No. XVIII.

ANNUAL REPORT OF SANITARY INSPECTORS FOR THE YEAR 1924—continued.

ANNUAL REPORT OF SANITARY INSPECTORS FOR THE YEAR 1924 -continued.

House-to-house inspections were made in the following streets during the year 1924:— Inspector Simpson.—East Ward.

Inspector Shelley—East Ward.

Inspector Kemp—North-west and South-west Wards.

Inspector Hewett—North Ward.

Inspector Allam South and South east Wards.

Inspector Yates—North and North-west Wards.

Inspector Mayo—North-west Ward.

Table XIX. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF DEPTFORD. PROCEEDINGS DURING 1924.

Table XX. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF DEPTFORD. PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT. TABULATION OF REPORT AS REQUIRED BY S. 131 OF THE FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1901. INSPECTION OF FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, AND WORKPLACES, during 1924.

2 —DEFECTS FOUND.

Table—continued. 3.—HOME WORK.

Table—continued. 4 —REGISTERED WORKSHOPS.

5.—OTHER MATTERS.

Table XXII. Proceedings Taken in regard to Samples Purchased during the year 1924.

Table XXIII. Samples taken during 1924.

Table XXIV. SHOWING NUMBER OF ROOMS DISINFECTED AFTER THE FOLLOWING DISEASES.

Table XXV. SHOWING THE NUMBER OF PREMISES, ROOMS AND BEDDING DISINFECTED DURING THE YEAR 1924.

Summary.

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Bodies Received, etc.

Summary of Visits paid by Health Visitors.

SUMMARY OF WORK OF HEALTH VISITORS.

Births Notified, Year 1924.

Milk supplied to Necessitous Mothers and Children. During the year 8,380 applications were received and were dealt with as follows :—

Dried Milk, Virol, &amp;c. The following amounts of dried milk, &amp;c., were distributed to the mothers attending the Infant Welfare Centres, during the year 1924. The previous year's figures are given for comparison.

NAPIER STREET CLINIC.

ERLAM ROAD CLINIC.

GOLDSMITHS' COLLEGE CLINIC.

BESSON STREET CLINIC.

GOSTERWOOD STREET CLINIC.

HALES STREET CLINIC.

Table showing Attendances at the Ante-natal Centre and Special Clinic for Babies During 1923.

A

B

B—continued.

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D

D—continued.

E

F

G

H

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L

M

Dried Milk, Virol, &c. The following amounts of dried milk, &c., were distributed to the mothers attending the Infant Welfare Centres, during the year 1924. The previous year's figures are given for comparison.