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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 1932

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]

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stillbirths notified. Of the 1,138 living and stillbirths
notified, 819 were notified by midwives, 192 by
maternity assistants of the London Hospital, 90 by
medical practitioners, and 37 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 520 live babies
and 19 stillbirths being received in this way.

Table: 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: —

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) 1,59510,750
Children (1—2 years) 10204,01311,962
„ (2—3 years) 43,170
„ (3—4 years) 22,481
„ (4—5 years) 4.2,298
Mothers (Ante-Natal) 895413
,, (Post-Natal) 6137
Stillbirths 4727
Visits.Re-visits.
Infant Deaths5618
Maternal Deaths22
Puerperal Fever (11) and Pyrexia (39)1733
Ophthalmia Neonatorum1855
Acute Poliomyelitis24
Other Notifiable Diseases410
Diarrhoea and Enteritis21
Measles (2,441), and German Measles (5)1,1091,337
Whooping Cough80174
Other Non-Notifiable Diseases2988
Milk Grants14410
Convalescent Treatment117
Other matters143203
Total Visits...4,10525,531
Grand Total29,636