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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
Bethnal Green 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]
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the Medical Officer of Health. There were also 32
stillbirths notified. Of the 1,307 living and stillbirths
notified, 940 were notified by midwives, 208 by
maternity assistants of the London Hospital, 119 by
medical practitioners, and 40 by parents and others.
Through the courtesy of neighbouring Medical
Officers of Health I also received copies of notifications
of births of. Bethnal Green babies which took place
outside the Borough, information as to 561 live babies
and 24 stillbirths being received in this way.
WORK OF HEALTH VISITORS. The following table gives some account of the outdoor work of the Health Visitors so far as this can be expressed in statistics:—
| Visits. | Re-visits. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Babies (under 1 year) | 1.871 | 12,165 | |||
| Children (1—2 years) | 2 | 12 | 4,587 | 13,353 | |
| „ (2—3 years) | 5 | 3,856 | |||
| „ (3—4 years) | 3 | 2,824 | |||
| „ (4—5 years) | 2 | 2,086 | |||
| Mothers (Ante-natal) | 919 | 361 | |||
| „ (Post-natal) | 43 | 46 | |||
| Stillbirths | 54 | 50 | |||
| Infant Deaths | 98 | 9 | |||
| Maternal Deaths | 4 | 1 | |||
| Puerperal Fever (25) and Pyrexia (44) | 23 | 46 | |||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 23 | 91 | |||
| Acute Poliomyelitis | — | — | |||
| Other Notifiable Diseases | 2 | — | |||
| Diarrhoea and Enteritis | 1 | — | |||
| Measles (259), and German Measles (3) | 124 | 138 | |||
| Whooping Cough | 120 | 199 | |||
| Other Non-notifiable Diseases | 28 | 94 | |||
| Milk Grants | 28 | 889 | |||
| Convalescent Treatment | 12 | 7 | |||
| Other matters | 70 | 184 | |||
| Total Visits | 3,432 | 27,633 | |||
| Grand Total | 31,065 | ||||