Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford
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Milk supplied to Necessitous Mothers and Children. During the year 7,381 applications were received and were dealt with as follows:—
Granted free | 5595 |
„ at half-price | 1759 |
Refused (over scale) | 27 |
7,381 |
1925 | 1924 | 1923 | 1922 | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Ambrosia | 3,195 11b. packets | 2,656 | 1,697 | 822 |
Cow and Gate | 1,903 „ | 1,897 | 2,104 | 152 |
Glaxo | 1,356 „ | 2,819 | 3,172 | 3,891 |
Lactogal | 69 tins | 68 | 84 | 292 |
Lacta | — | 29 | 1,736 | 319 |
Trufood | 191 1 lb. tins | 188 | 39 | — |
Recolac | 36 „ | 9 | — | — |
Virol | 28 28 lb. tins | 36 | 42 | 56 |
"Winsome" | — | — | 48 | — |
Maternity Home.
Particulars of cases admitted during the year 1925 :—
Cases admitted, 254.
Average stay, Two weeks.
Cases delivered by midwives, 243.
„ „ „ doctors, 11.
Cases in which medical advice sought, 25.
(a) Ante-natal, Nil.
(b) During labour, 15 (Prolonged labour, post partum,
haemorrhage and adherent placenta).
(c) After labour, 2 (pneumonia).
(d) For infant, 8 (Convulsions and dangerous feebleness).
Cases notified as puerperal sepsis, Nil.
Temperature rose above 100.4 for 24 hours with rise in pulse, 3.
Cases of Pemphigus Neonatorum, Nil.
Notified as Ophthalmia Neonatorum, 1 (transferred to M.A.B.
Hospital).
Inflammation (eyes), Nil.
Infants not entirely breast fed, Nil.
Maternal deaths, Nil.
Foetal deaths, Stillborn, 4. Foetal death, 1.