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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Deptford 1924

Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford

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Table: 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.

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 1924Year 1923
2,819 1 lb. packets3,172
Ambrosia2,6561,697
Cow and Gate1,8972,104
Trufood188 1 lb. tins39
Lactogal68 tins84
Virol36 28 lb. tins42
Lacta29 1 lb. packets1736
Recolac9 1 lb. tins—
Winsome—48

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Maternity Home
Particulars of cases admitted during the year 1924 :—
Cases admitted, 176.
Average stay, Two weeks.
Cases delivered by midwives, 168.
doctors, 8.
Cases in which medical advice sought,
(a) Ante-natal, (threatened abortion, Albuminuria and
Influenza), 4.
(b) During labour, (Prolonged labour). 8
(c) After labour, Nil.
(.d) For infant, (Premature and Dangerous feebleness), 4.
Cases notified as puerperal sepsis, Nil.
Temperature rose above 100.4 for 24 hours with rise in pulse, 1.
Notified as Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Nil.
Inflammation (eyes), 1.
Infants not entirely breast fed, 1 (depressed nipples and insufficient
breast milk.)
Maternal deaths, Nil.
Fœtal deaths, (2 Premature and 3 Stillborn.)