London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Deptford 1925

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 free5595
„ at half-price1759
Refused (over scale)27
7,381

Dried Milk, Virol,&c. The following amounts of dried milk, &c., were distributed to the mothers attending the Infant Welfare Centres, during the year 1925 and previous years.

1925192419231922
Ambrosia3,195 11b. packets2,6561,697822
Cow and Gate1,903 „1,8972,104152
Glaxo1,356 „2,8193,1723,891
Lactogal69 tins6884292
Lacta291,736319
Trufood191 1 lb. tins18839
Recolac36 „9
Virol28 28 lb. tins364256
"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.