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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

Battersea 1920

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]

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Table: Health Visitors. The work carried out during 1920 by the Council's Health Visiting Staff, and by the Health Visitors of the voluntary organisations included in the Borough Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme, will be found summarised below:—

Health Visitors. The work carried out during 1920 by the Council's Health Visiting Staff, and by the Health Visitors of the voluntary organisations included in the Borough Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme, will be found summarised below:—

Health Visitors'First Visits.Re-Visits.Total.Grand Total
C'cil.Vol'y.C'cil.Vol'y.C'cil.Vol'y.
Visits to Expectant Mothers259124376170635294929
Visits to Notified Births187659943992196627527959070
Visits to children aged 1-5 years1913185936110573921449
Visits to enquire into Infant Deaths855820—10558163
Visit to cases of Infectious Disease1275—2827—4102—4102
Other Visits45250——45250502
Totals41458628481272712626358916215
Health Visitors' Attendances at Maternity Centres.
Council.Voluntary.Total.
736176912

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Milk Orders
The Milk (Mothers and Children) Order, 1918, and the
Local Authorities (Food Control) Order (No. 1), 1918, were
in force in the Borough of Battersea during the year 1920.
These orders were administered mainly from the Town Hall
Centre, but, in part, locally through the Council's Maternity
and Child Welfare Centres, and through the Voluntary
Associations' Centres linked up with the Council's scheme.
The supply of milk under the Orders is not restricted to
necessitous cases, but the quantity to be supplied is limited to
1½ pints daily to children under 18 months, and 1 pint daily
to children from 18 months up to 5 years of age. For