London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hampstead 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead Borough]
This page requires JavaScript
34
Health Visiting Staff.
In connection with maternity and child welfare work, the Council
employs four Health Visitors; while 40 per cent, of the time of the
Woman Sanitary Inspector is also devoted to this work. The holder
of this latter appointment, Mrs. Casewell, resigned on 30th November,
and Miss Lambe, one of the Council's Health Visitors, was promoted
in her stead. To fill the vacancy thus occasioned among the full time
Health Visiting Staff, Miss N. B. May, Health Visitor for the Pad.
dington Metropolitan Borough Council, was appointed and commenced
her duties on 17th December.
The minimum number of visits which the Health Visitors are expected to pay to each child is as follows:—
| Year of Life. | Total. | |
|---|---|---|
| First | At 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 10 and 12 months | 7 |
| Second | Once every 3 months | 4 |
| Third | " 4 " | 3 |
| Fourth ... | „ 6 „ | 2 |
| Fifth | 2 |
At the close of the year the Health Visitors had under their
supervision for systematic visiting 597 infants under one year of age
and 1,799 children aged between one and five years.
The following table gives a record of the work of the Health Visitors in 1934 :—
| First visits to expectant mothers | 252 |
| Re.visits to expectant mothers | 405 |
| First visits to infants under one year | 833 |
| Re.visits to infants under one year | 3855 |
| Visits to children from 1 to 2 years | 2353 |
| Visits to children from 2 to 5 years | 4367 |
| Visits to foster.mothers and foster.children | 1123 |
| Visits re infectious diseases ... | 2619 |
| Attendances at Borough Council's Ante.natal Clinics | 152 |
| Attendances at Borough Council's Dental Clinic | 121 |
| Attendances at Hampstead Council of Social Welfare | |
| Infant Welfare Centres and Toddlers' Clinics | 397 |
| Miscellaneous visits | 846 |