Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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Money Taken.
£ | s. | d. | |
---|---|---|---|
For Dried Milk (4,479 lbs.) | 480 | 15 | 1 |
,, Medical sundries | 35 | 10 | 5½ |
,, Dentures | 50 | 0 | 0 |
„ Spectacles | 3 | 12 | 5 |
,, Materials at sewing class | 40 | 9 | 9½ |
Total money taken | 610 | 7 | 9 |
4,425 vouchers for cod liver oil, malt, etc., were also issued.".
Grants.
Free vouchers (cod liver oil, etc.) | 12 cases. |
Free spectacles | 1 „ |
Free convalescent treatment (one mother, four children) | 5 ,, |
Free attendance of midwife | 6 „ |
Free attendance of maternity nurse | 1 „ |
Loan of maternity bag | 1 „ |
In addition three mothers and babies were guests at the Lady
Forster Guest Home, the Council paying return fare in one case.
Vital Statistics, 1920.
All births, including those occurring in out-lying districts, but belonging to the Borough | 5,558 |
Attended by doctors | 1,261 |
Attended by midwives | 3,620 |
Delivered in institutions | 568 |
Not stated | 109 |
Stillborn | 144 |
Died before visit | 104 |
Not requiring or desiring visits | 580 |
Visited | 4,730 |
Removed and not traced | 310 |
Died during visitation | 213 |
Remaining under supervision end of first year | 4,207 |
Stillbirths per 1,000 births | 28.9 |
Mortality per 1,000 births, died before visit | 18.7 |
Mortality per 1,000 visited | 48.1 |